Genetics

Noun

 * 1)  The branch of biology that deals with the transmission and variation of inherited characteristics, in particular chromosomes and DNA.
 * 2)   The genetic makeup of a specific individual or species.
 * 3) * 2005, Mark Linden O’Meara, The Feeling Soul: A Roadmap to Healing and Living, Soul Care Publishing, ISBN 978-0-9680459-2-3, page 45:
 * As a result of your father’s, mother’s, and their parents genetics, you are born with a genetic structure that is dealt to you at conception.  Our ancestry determines our genetics.

Synonyms

 * genes

Derived terms

 * population genetics
 * evolutionary genetics
 * quantitative genetics

Thesaurus
Altmann theory, DNA, De Vries theory, Galtonian theory, Mendelianism, Mendelism, RNA, Verworn theory, Weismann theory, Weismannism, Wiesner theory, aerobiology, agrobiology, allele, allelomorph, anatomy, astrobiology, bacteriology, biochemics, biochemistry, biochemy, bioecology, biological science, biology, biometrics, biometry, bionics, bionomics, biophysics, birth, botany, cell physiology, character, chromatid, chromatin, chromosome, cryobiology, cybernetics, cytology, determinant, determiner, diathesis, ecology, electrobiology, embryology, endowment, enzymology, ethnobiology, eugenics, exobiology, factor, gene, genesiology, genetic code, gnotobiotics, hereditability, heredity, heritability, heritage, inborn capacity, inheritability, inheritance, life science, matrocliny, microbiology, molecular biology, patrocliny, pharmacogenetics, pharmacology, physiology, radiobiology, recessive character, replication, taxonomy, virology, xenobiology, zoology

Etymology
γένεσις:. Ultimately from γίγνομαι:.

Translations

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 * Novial: genetike
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 * German: Genetik
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 * Japanese: 遺伝的特性
 * Novial: genetike