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inherit from

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inherit something from someone 
1. to receive something from the estate of a person who has died. I inherited this silver bowl from my aunt. Liz inherited her house from her parents.
2. to receive a genetic or behavioral trait from a relative. I inherited my stubbornness from my father's side of the family. My dark hair was inherited from my father.


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The fact is, even though you may have inherited a higher concentration of fat cells from your family gene pool, it is the bad habits that you inherit from them that will contribute more to your weight than your genes.
The new technology, called "Conversion," converts the usual "diploid" or paired versions of genes that people inherit from their parents to separate "haploid" status, or two single alleles.
 
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