Consanguineous vs Biological - What's the difference?
consanguineous | biological |
Related by birth; descended from the same parent or ancestor.
* 2002', B. Modell and A. Darr, "Science and society: genetic counselling and customary '''consanguineous marriage," ''Nature Reviews: Genetics , vol 3. no. 3 (Mar.), p. 225,
Of or relating to biology.
*{{quote-magazine, year=2012, month=March-April
, author=John T. Jost
, title=Social Justice: Is It in Our Nature (and Our Future)?
, volume=100, issue=2, page=162
, magazine=(American Scientist)
Related by consanguinity, especially as to parents and children.
Biological is a synonym of consanguineous.
As adjectives the difference between consanguineous and biological
is that consanguineous is related by birth; descended from the same parent or ancestor while biological is of or relating to biology.consanguineous
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- Consanguineous marriage is customary in many societies, but leads to an increased birth prevalence of infants with severe recessive disorders.
Synonyms
* consanguine * consanguineal * same-bloodedSee also
* affinalbiological
English
Adjective
(-)citation, passage=He draws eclectically on studies of baboons, descriptive anthropological accounts of hunter-gatherer societies and, in a few cases, the fossil record. With this biological framework in place, Corning endeavors to show that the capitalist system as currently practiced in the United States and elsewhere is manifestly unfair.}}
