These are traits you are born with. You may hear people say that a certain trait, such as red hair, "runs in the family." In humans, these traits include eye color, hair color, height, curly or straight hair, and facial features like dimples, freckles, cleft chin, or nose shape.
Three traits that are inherited by all members of the cat species are that maybe their skin, eye color, what they eat, or the ability to catch mice or fish.