genetics

UK:^*^*UK and possibly other pronunciationsUK and possibly other pronunciations/dʒɪˈnɛtɪks/US:USA pronunciation: IPA and respellingUSA pronunciation: IPA/dʒəˈnɛtɪks/ ,USA pronunciation: respelling( jə net′iks)

ge•net•ics /dʒəˈnɛtɪks/USA pronunciation n. [uncountable* used with a singular verb]

Biologythe branch of biology that deals with the heredity of living things and how genes contribute to differences and similarities:Genetics is a science that combines biology and statistics.
Biologythe genetic properties or makeup of an organism or group.

See -gen-.

ge•net•ics ( jə net′iks),USA pronunciation n. (used with a sing. v.)

Biologythe science of heredity, dealing with resemblances and differences of related organisms resulting from the interaction of their genes and the environment.
Geneticsthe genetic properties and phenomena of an organism.

term first proposed in this sense by British biologist William Bateson (1861–1926) in 1905 see genetic, -

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genetics /dʒɪˈnɛtɪks/ n

(functioning as singular) the branch of biology concerned with the study of heredity and variation in organisms
the genetic features and constitution of a single organism, species, or group

'genetics' also found in these entries (note: many are not synonyms or translations):

Beadle - biocomputing - cytogenetics - deme - drosophila - genetic - geneticist - genomics - molecular genetics - Neo-Darwinism - accessory chromosome - acentric - A chromosome - acquired character - acrocentric - allele - allele frequency - alphabet - amplification - anticodon - antimutagenic - artificial gene - asynapsis - autosome - backcross - back-mutate - back mutation - base pair - base-pairing rules - B chromosome - binomial law - biogenetics - biotype - bivalent - blending inheritance - breed - carrier - cenospecies - character - chiasmatypy - chimera - chromatid - chromomere - chromonema - chromosomal aberration - chromosome - chromosome number - cistron - coadaptation - code

In Lists: Fields of science, Biology, Psychology, more...

Synonyms: heredity, more...

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