heritable

That can legally be inherited.

An heritable crown, or an heritable throne, or by what other fanciful name such things may be called, have no other significant explanation than that mankind are heritable property.

Genetically transmissible from parent to offspring; hereditary.

But if we consider that all heritable variations must have their roots in the germ-plasm, and further, that when personal selection does not intervene, ...

Whether they are involved in carcinogenesis by induction of a heritable lesion would depend, I believe, on their ability either to mispair or to misrepair.