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genetic
| genetic abnormality
| genetic code
| genetic constitution
| genetic counseling
| genetic defect
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genetic
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Adjective genetic has 4 senses
- genetic(s = adj.all) familial, hereditary, inherited, transmissible, transmitted - occurring among members of a family usually by heredity; "an inherited disease"; "familial traits"; "genetically transmitted features"
- genetic(a = adj.pert) genetical, genic - of or relating to or produced by or being a gene; "genic combinations"; "genetic code"
- genetic(a = adj.pert) Array - pertaining to or referring to origin; "genetic history reconstructs the origins of a literary work"
- genetic(a = adj.pert) genetical - of or relating to the science of genetics; "genetic research" Derived forms noun gene1, noun genetics1
CIDE DICTIONARY
genetic, a.
- Same as Genetical. [1913 Webster]
- Of or pertaining to genes or genetics; as, the genetic code. [PJC]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
genetic, adj.
1 of genetics or genes; inherited.
2 of, in, or concerning origin; causal.
1 of genetics or genes; inherited.
2 of, in, or concerning origin; causal.
Idiom
genetic code Biochem. the means by which genetic information is stored as sequences of nucleotide bases in the chromosomal DNA. genetic engineering the deliberate modification of the characters of an organism by the manipulation of DNA and the transformation of certain genes. genetic fingerprinting (or profiling) the analysis of characteristic patterns in DNA as a means of identifying individuals.
Derivative
genetically adv.
Etymology
GENESIS after antithetic
THESAURUS
genetic
abiogenetic, aboriginal, advancing, atavistic, basal, basic, biogenetic, blastogenetic, bodily, born, bradytelic, central, clannish, coeval, congenital, connatal, connate, connatural, constitutional, crucial, developing, elemental, elementary, embryonic, epigenetic, ethnic, eumerogenetic, evolutional, evolutionist, evolutionistic, evolving, family, fundamental, gametic, generative, genial, genic, genital, genitive, gentile, gentilic, germinal, hereditary, heterogenetic, histogenetic, homogenetic, horotelic, in embryo, in ovo, in the blood, inborn, inbred, incarnate, indigenous, inherited, innate, instinctive, instinctual, isogenetic, lineal, matroclinous, maturational, maturative, maturing, merogenetic, metagenetic, monogenetic, national, native, native to, natural, natural to, ontogenetic, organic, original, orthogenetic, pangenetic, parthenogenetic, patrimonial, patroclinous, phyletic, phylogenetic, physical, physiogenetic, phytogenetic, plasmatic, plasmic, pregnant, primal, primary, primeval, primitive, primordial, pristine, progressing, protogenic, protoplasmic, racial, radical, rudimentary, seminal, sporogenous, tachytelic, temperamental, totemic, tribal, unfolding, xenogeneticROGET THESAURUS
genetic
Production
N production, creation, construction, formation, fabrication, manufacture, building, architecture, erection, edification, coinage, diaster, organization, nisus formativus, putting together, establishment, workmanship, performance, achievement, flowering, fructification, inflorescence, bringing forth, parturition, birth, birth-throe, childbirth, delivery, confinement, accouchement, travail, labor, midwifery, obstetrics, geniture, gestation, assimilation, evolution, development, growth, entelechy, fertilization, gemination, germination, heterogamy, genesis, generation, epigenesis, procreation, progeneration, propagation, fecundation, impregnation, albumen, spontaneous generation, archegenesis, archebiosis, biogenesis, abiogenesis, digenesis, dysmerogenesis, eumerogenesis, heterogenesis, oogenesis, merogenesis, metogenesis, monogenesis, parthenogenesis, homogenesis, xenogenesis, authorship, publication, works, opus, oeuvre, biogeny, dissogeny, xenogeny, tocogony, vacuolization, edifice, building, structure, fabric, erection, pile, tower, flower, fruit, produced, producing, productive of, prolific, creative, formative, genetic, genial, genital, pregnant, enceinte, big with, fraught with, in the family way, teeming, parturient, in the straw, brought to bed of, puerperal, puerperous, digenetic, heterogenetic, oogenetic, xenogenetic, ectogenous, gamic, haematobious, sporogenous, sporophorous, architectonic, ex nihilo nihil, fiat lux, materiam superabat opus, nemo dat quod non habet.
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