Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
- adj. Of or relating to genetics or genes.
- adj. Affecting or determined by genes: genetic diseases.
- adj. Of, relating to, or influenced by the origin or development of something.
- adj. Linguistics Of or relating to the relationship between or among languages that are descendants of the same protolanguage.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
- adj. relating to genetics or genes
- adj. caused by genes
- adj. of or relating to origin (genesis)
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
- adj. Same as genetical.
- adj. Of or pertaining to genes or genetics.
from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Of or pertaining to genesis in any way; as regards origin or mode of production.
- Thè definition of a natural kind by means of an explanation of how such things first came to be.
- n. A medicine which acts on the sexual organs.
- An element in recent adjectives which correspond to nouns in -genesis (see genesis) and -geny (see -geny), as biogenetic, phylogenetic, etc. See genetic.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adj. of or relating to or produced by or being a gene
- adj. pertaining to or referring to origin
- adj. occurring among members of a family usually by heredity
- adj. of or relating to the science of genetics
Etymologies
Examples
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If we suppose that some of the ˜pegs™ in Waddington's model are environmental factors, rather than genetic loci, then we can define separate notions of ˜environmental canalisation™ and ˜genetic canalisation™.
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The idea that the ˜genetic program™ or ˜genetic instructions™ for phenotypes are literally written in the genetic code is a continuing barrier to the public understanding of genetics, one that is reinforced every time a journalist reports that scientists have ˜decoded™ the gene for something.
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But although the term genetic discrimination dates back to around 1986, Reilly argued that there is scant documented evidence of genetic discrimination by insurers and employers.
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Six years ago the term genetic genealogy was meaningless, says Bennett Greenspan, head of Family Tree DNA, which has 52,000 customers.
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Though she went on to earn a graduate degree in international studies at New York University—and, driven by what she called "genetic memory," repeatedly returned to Russia—Ms. Simone was determined to make music.
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Collins told them, "We now have smart bombs" -- what he calls the genetic and pharmaceutical attacks against the disease.
Failure Wrong Diagnosis in War Against Cancer, Say Congress and Medical Writers as American...
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Often, I hear people say, "Oh, I've got bad genes, there's nothing I can do about it" -- displaying what I call genetic nihilism.
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Alm also wants to find out exactly how business is conducted in what he called a genetic "black market."
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The point is that Mayr coined the term genetic homeostais because all breeding experiments
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When I set out, I wanted to learn more about "birth defects," and the difference between what I called genetic and developmental causation.
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