ge·net·ics (j -n t  ks)n. 1. (used with a sing. verb) The branch of biology that deals with heredity, especially the mechanisms of hereditary transmission and the variation of inherited characteristics among similar or related organisms. 2. (used with a pl. verb) The genetic constitution of an individual, group, or class. |
genetics [dʒɪˈnɛtɪks]
n
1. (Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Biology) (functioning as singular) the branch of biology concerned with the study of heredity and variation in organisms
2. (Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Biology) the genetic features and constitution of a single organism, species, or group
| genetics (j-ntks) The scientific study of the principles of heredity and the variation of inherited traits among related organisms. |
genetics
1. Biology. the science of heredity, studying resemblances and differences in related organisms and the mechanisms which explain these phenomena.
2. the genetic properties and phenomena of an organism. — geneticist, n. — genetic, adj.
See also: Heredity2. the genetic properties and phenomena of an organism. — geneticist, n. — genetic, adj.
the branch of biology that studies heredity and variation in plants and animals. — geneticist, n. — genetic, adj.
See also: Biology
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| Noun | 1. |  genetics - the branch of biology that studies heredity and variation in organismstransformation - (genetics) modification of a cell or bacterium by the uptake and incorporation of exogenous DNA hybridisation, hybridization, hybridizing, interbreeding, crossbreeding, crossing, cross - (genetics) the act of mixing different species or varieties of animals or plants and thus to produce hybrids chromosome mapping, mapping - (genetics) the process of locating genes on a chromosome carrier - (genetics) an organism that possesses a recessive gene whose effect is masked by a dominant allele; the associated trait is not apparent but can be passed on to offspring amphidiploid - (genetics) an organism or cell having a diploid set of chromosomes from each parent diploid - (genetics) an organism or cell having the normal amount of DNA per cell; i.e., two sets of chromosomes or twice the haploid number haploid - (genetics) an organism or cell having only one complete set of chromosomes heteroploid - (genetics) an organism or cell having a chromosome number that is not an even multiple of the haploid chromosome number for that species polyploid - (genetics) an organism or cell having more than twice the haploid number of chromosomes crossbreed, hybrid, cross - (genetics) an organism that is the offspring of genetically dissimilar parents or stock; especially offspring produced by breeding plants or animals of different varieties or breeds or species; "a mule is a cross between a horse and a donkey" vector - (genetics) a virus or other agent that is used to deliver DNA to a cell cosmid - (genetics) a large vector that is made from a bacteriophage and used to clone genes or gene fragments character - (genetics) an attribute (structural or functional) that is determined by a gene or group of genes unit character - (genetics) a character inherited on an all-or-none basis and dependent on the presence of a single gene hereditary pattern, inheritance - (genetics) attributes acquired via biological heredity from the parents heterosis, hybrid vigor - (genetics) the tendency of a crossbred organism to have qualities superior to those of either parent gene linkage, linkage - (genetics) traits that tend to be inherited together as a consequence of an association between their genes; all of the genes of a given chromosome are linked (where one goes they all go) fertilized ovum, zygote - (genetics) the diploid cell resulting from the union of a haploid spermatozoon and ovum (including the organism that develops from that cell) heterozygote - (genetics) an organism having two different alleles of a particular gene and so giving rise to varying offspring homozygote - (genetics) an organism having two identical alleles of a particular gene and so breeding true for the particular characteristic cistron, gene, factor - (genetics) a segment of DNA that is involved in producing a polypeptide chain; it can include regions preceding and following the coding DNA as well as introns between the exons; it is considered a unit of heredity; "genes were formerly called factors" allele, allelomorph - (genetics) either of a pair (or series) of alternative forms of a gene that can occupy the same locus on a particular chromosome and that control the same character; "some alleles are dominant over others" haplotype - (genetics) a combination of alleles (for different genes) that are located closely together on the same chromosome and that tend to be inherited together XX - (genetics) normal complement of sex chromosomes in a female XXX - (genetics) abnormal complement of three X chromosomes in a female XXY - (genetics) abnormal complement of sex hormones in a male resulting in Klinefelter's syndrome XY - (genetics) normal complement of sex hormones in a male XYY - (genetics) abnormal complement of sex hormones in a male who has two Y chromosomes sex chromosome - (genetics) a chromosome that determines the sex of an individual; "mammals normally have two sex chromosomes" Mendel's law - (genetics) one of two principles of heredity formulated by Gregor Mendel on the basis of his experiments with plants; the principles were limited and modified by subsequent genetic research biological science, biology - the science that studies living organisms cytogenetics - the branch of biology that studies the cellular aspects of heredity (especially the chromosomes) genomics - the branch of genetics that studies organisms in terms of their genomes (their full DNA sequences) proteomics - the branch of genetics that studies the full set of proteins encoded by a genome |
Translations
genetics
n sing → Vererbungslehre f, → Genetik f
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