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genetics
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun genetics has 1 sense
- genetics(n = noun.cognition) genetic science - the branch of biology that studies heredity and variation in organisms; Array is a kind of biological science, biology
has particulars: cytogenetics, genomics, proteomics, molecular genetics, pharmacogenetics
Derived forms adjective genetic4, adjective genetical2, noun geneticist1
OXFORD DICTIONARY
genetics, n.pl. (treated as sing.) the study of heredity and the variation of inherited characteristics.
Derivative
geneticist n.
THESAURUS
genetics
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, zoologyROGET THESAURUS
genetics
Life
N life, vitality, viability, animation, vital spark, vital flame, soul, spirit, respiration, wind, breath of life, breath of one's nostrils, oxygen, air, respirator, artificial respirator, heart and lung machine, iron lung, medical devices, lifeblood, Archeus, existence, vivification, vital force, vitalization, revivification, Prometheus, life to come, physiology, biology, animal ecology, nourishment, staff of life, genetics, heredity, inheritance, evolution, natural selection, reproduction (production), microbe, aerobe, anaerobe, facultative anaerobe, obligate aerobe, obligate anaerobe, halophile, methanogen, archaebacteria, microaerophile, animal, vegetable, artificial life, robot, robotics, artificial intelligence, breathing, breathing rate, heartbeat, pulse, temperature, preservation of life, healing (medicine), living, alive, in life, in the flesh, in the land of the living, on this side of the grave, above ground, breathing, quick, animated, animative, lively, all alive and kicking, tenacious of life, full of life, yeasty, vital, vitalic, vivifying, vivified viable, zoetic, Promethean, vivendi causa, atqui vivere militare est, non est vivere sed valere vita.
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