genetics
Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
genetics/ʤəˈnetɪks/
▶plural noun
- 1 [treated as sing.] the study of heredity and the variation of inherited characteristics.
- 2 [treated as sing. or pl.] the genetic properties or features of an organism.
– derivatives
geneticist noun.
geneticist noun.
'genetics' also found in these Oxford entries:
acentric
- allele
- amplify
- anaphase
- aneuploid
- antisense
- assort
- backcross
- carrier
- centimorgan
- code
- competence
- complementation
- conjugation
- conserve
- crossing over
- degenerate
- derepress
- dicentric
- dihybrid
- diploid
- disomy
- dominance
- dominant
- epistasis
- euploid
- express
- genetic
- genetically modified
- haploid
- heterozygote
- hexaploid
- homeobox
- homozygote
- hybrid vigour
- hypermutable
- inclusive fitness
- junk DNA
- linkage
- marker
- monogenic
- monohybrid
- neo-Darwinian
- non-disjunction
- nonsense
- penetrant
- pentaploid
- pharmacogenomics
- pleiotropy
