Genetic vs. Hereditary — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Genetic and Hereditary
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Genetic
Relating to genes or heredity
Genetic abnormalities
Hereditary
(of a title, office, or right) conferred by or based on inheritance
The Queen's hereditary right to the throne
Genetic
Relating to origin, or arising from a common origin
The genetic relations between languages
Hereditary
(of a set) defined such that every element which has a given relation to a member of the set is also a member of the set.
Genetic
Of or relating to genetics or genes.
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Hereditary
Of or relating to heredity or inheritance.
Genetic
Affecting or determined by genes
Genetic diseases.
Hereditary
Transmitted or capable of being transmitted genetically from parent to offspring
A hereditary disease.
Genetic
Of, relating to, or influenced by the origin or development of something.
Hereditary
Passed down from one generation to the next
A hereditary prejudice.
Genetic
(Linguistics) Of or relating to the relationship between or among languages that are descendants of the same language.
Hereditary
Being such or possessed by reason of birth
A hereditary aristocracy.
Genetic
(genetics) Relating to genetics or genes.
Hereditary
Capable of being inherited.
Genetic
Caused by genes.
Hereditary
Descending from an ancestor to a legal heir; passing down by inheritance.
Genetic
Of or relating to origin (genesis).
Hereditary
Having title or possession through inheritance.
Genetic
(linguistics) Based on shared membership in a linguistic family.
Chinese has borrowed several words from English, but it does not have a genetic relationship to English.
Hereditary
Passed on as an inheritance, by last will or intestate.
Genetic
(theology) Based on a shared membership in a religious family.
Hereditary
Of a title, honor or right: legally granted to somebody's descendant after that person's death.
Duke is a hereditary title which was created in Norman times.
Genetic
Same as Genetical.
Hereditary
Of a person: holding a legally hereditary title or rank.
Hereditary rulers
Genetic
Of or pertaining to genes or genetics; as, the genetic code.
Hereditary
Of a disease or trait: passed from a parent to offspring in the genes.
Haemophilia is hereditary in his family.
Genetic
Tending to occur among members of a family usually by heredity;
An inherited disease
Familial traits
Genetically transmitted features
Hereditary
(math) Of a ring: such that all submodules of projective modules over the ring are also projective.
Genetic
Of or relating to or produced by or being a gene;
Genic combinations
Genetic code
Hereditary
A hereditary ruler; a hereditary peer in the House of Lords.
Genetic
Of or relating to the science of genetics;
Genetic research
Hereditary
Descended, or capable of descending, from an ancestor to an heir at law; received or passing by inheritance, or that must pass by inheritance; as, an hereditary estate or crown.
Hereditary
Transmitted, or capable of being transmitted, as a constitutional quality or condition from a parent to a child; as, hereditary pride, bravery, disease.
Hereditary
Tending to occur among members of a family usually by heredity;
An inherited disease
Familial traits
Genetically transmitted features
Hereditary
Inherited or inheritable by established rules (usually legal rules) of descent;
Ancestral home
Ancestral lore
Hereditary monarchy
Patrimonial estate
Transmissible tradition
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