genetic meaning

[d͡ʒəˈnetɪk]

[d͡ʒɪˈnetɪk]

[-ɛtɪk]

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Genetic may refer to:
Genetics, in biology, the science of genes, heredity, and the variation of organisms
Genetic, used as an adjective, refers to heredity of traits
Gene, a unit of heredity in the genome of an organism
Genetic recombination, refers to the recombining of alleles resulting in a new molecule of DNA
Genetic (linguistics), in linguistics, a relationship between two languages with a common ancestor language
Genetic algorithm, in computer science, a kind of search technique modeled on evolutionary biology

Definition of genetic in English Dictionary

AdjectiveSUF-genetic
1. (genetics) Relating to genetics or genes.
  1. Plant breeding is always a numbers game. [ …] The wild species we use are rich in genetic variation, and individual plants are highly heterozygous and do not breed true. In addition, we are looking for rare alleles, so the more plants we try, the better.
More Examples
1. Used in the Middle of Sentence
  - To narrow down the region that contains the genetic loci involved in the aggression-eliciting effects on Chr 15, we established a panel of subconsomic strains of MSM Chr 15.
  - Similarly, foreign genetic material may be acquired at this locus by illegitimate recombination during genome concatemerisation.
  - We identified a phenolic compound, chloroxynil, which increased the genetic transformation of L.
2. Used in the Beginning of Sentence
  - Genetic data suggests that the core fucose-residues on C. elegans N-glycan are not responsible for the nematotoxicity of this fucose-binding lectin.