Board Thread:Off Topic/@comment-26397825-20151211051732/@comment-25396609-20151214072911

Semblance is a manifestation of the soul, they are hereditary in that your soul (in this case the neural net) is shaped by your genetics, the baseline that is. DNA would not retain enough information on the parents or ancestors abilities to tap into it, as the majority of aspects of it are a result of experience over genetics.