genetic
1 Americanadjective
Other Word Forms
- genetically adverb
- hypergenetic adjective
- hypergenetical adjective
- hypergenetically adverb
- hypergeneticalness noun
- nongenetic adjective
- nongenetical adjective
- nongenetically adverb
Etymology
Origin of genetic
Example Sentences
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That absence has fueled skepticism about whether sponges truly originated as early as genetic evidence suggests.
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Yubin Zhou, professor and director of the Center for Translational Cancer Research at the Institute of Biosciences and Technology, focuses on studying disease at the cellular, genetic, and epigenetic levels.
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Cells read genetic instructions in sets of three letters called codons, and each codon corresponds to a specific amino acid.
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In that traditional view, the genome remained largely unstructured until it "woke up" and initiated its genetic program.
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They used both observational data and genetic techniques to assess whether blood levels of phenylalanine and tyrosine were related to overall mortality and predicted lifespan.
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