'''Structural inheritance''' is the transmission of a trait in a living [[organism]] by a self-perpetuating spatial structures. This is in contrast to the transmission of digital information such as is found in [[DNA]] sequences, which accounts for the vast majority of known [[genetics|genetic]] variation.
Examples of structural inheritance include the propagation of [[prion]]s, the infections agents of diseases such as scrapie (in sheep and goats), bovine spongiform encephalopathy ('mad cow disease') and Cr
