genetics

noun

ge·net·ics jə-ˈne-tiks

plural in form but singular in construction

: a branch of biology that deals with the heredity and variation of organisms

: the genetic makeup and phenomena of an organism, type, group, or condition

geneticist

jə-ˈne-tə-sist

noun

Examples of genetics in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web Greg Lutz of Louisiana State University, who has been researching the role of genetics in aquaculture for decades, told MIT Technology. —

al, 5 Feb. 2023 While a bulk of living longer and avoiding debilitating chronic illnesses lies in lifestyle changes, another factor is genetics, and the other is mere luck. —

Alexa Mikhail, Fortune, 1 Feb. 2023 George Church is a professor of genetics and of health sciences and technology at Harvard Medical School and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. —

Juergen Eckhardt and George Church, STAT, 1 Feb. 2023 The field of genetics has historically been misused to justify pre-existing prejudices. —

Teresa Nowakowski, Smithsonian Magazine, 30 Jan. 2023 In a best-case scenario for the coral, these mixing gametes will fertilize, exchanging the sort of genetics that allow for resilience in what has always been a changing ocean world. —

Stephanie Hanes, The Christian Science Monitor, 23 Jan. 2023 Part of it is genetics -- the requisite combination of size, length and athleticism. —

Chris Fedor, cleveland, 31 Dec. 2022 Most existing repositories include data from overwhelmingly white populations, which misses the rich diversity of human genetics. —

David Ewing Duncan, Scientific American, 7 Dec. 2022 While there are some genetics involved, Avena says emotional eating leans much more toward environmental factors. —

Sara Novak, Discover Magazine, 29 Dec. 2021 See More

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