# Engineered Inheritance **Entity class:** Genetic-engineering concept **Domain:** Biotechnology / Population genetics **Maturity:** Developed ## Definition Engineered inheritance deliberately changes the probability that a designed genetic trait passes from one generation to the next. ## Mechanism and significance It converts heredity into a deployment channel, making containment, consent, reversibility, and multigenerational effects part of the engineering specification. ## Relationships - **Research dossier:** [[research/ASI and RSI Timeline Research Moonshots|ASI and RSI Timeline Research Moonshots]] - **Ontology route:** [[ASI and RSI Timeline Ontology#Computational Biology and Virtual Cells|Computational Biology and Virtual Cells]] - **Primary fields:** [[AI-Driven Biology]] · [[Cellular Digital Twins]] · [[Computational Biology]] - **Adjacent concepts:** [[Kevin Esvelt]] · [[Genetically Propagated Mosquito Sterility]] · [[Population-Scale Genetic Intervention]] · [[Sterile Insect Technique]] ## Sources and provenance - [[research/ASI and RSI Timeline Research Moonshots|ASI and RSI Timeline Research Moonshots]] — immediate source for this node's role in the broadcast research map. ## Evidence boundary The research dossier establishes why this entity or concept belongs in the Moonshots ontology. Time-sensitive organizational, product, policy, and performance claims should be checked against the linked primary source or a current authoritative source before reuse as settled fact.