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Biology vs Genetics - What's the difference?

biology | genetics |

As nouns the difference between biology and genetics

is that biology is the study of all life or living matter while genetics is the branch of biology that deals with the transmission and variation of inherited characteristics, in particular chromosomes and DNA.

biology

English

(wikipedia biology)

Noun

  • The study of all life or living matter.
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  • The living organisms of a particular region.
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  • The structure, function, and behavior of an organism or type of organism.
    • the biology of the whale

    Synonyms

    * , life science, life sciences

    Meronyms

    * See also

    Derived terms

    * actinobiology * aerobiology * agrobiology * astrobiology * chemical biology * chronobiology * cryobiology * developmental biology * electrobiology * evolutionary biology * evolutionary developmental biology * exobiology * forensic biology * geobiology * geomicrobiology * glycobiology * hydrobiology * immunobiology * macrobiology * marine biology * microbiology * molecular biology * neurobiology * nonbiology * palaeobiology * paleobiology * pathobiology * photobiology * phytobiology * psychobiology * radiation biology * radiobiology * sociobiology * soil microbiology * space biology * structural biology * synthetic biology * synthetic-biology * systems biology * xenobiology

    Related terms

    * biological * biologically * biologic * biologism * biologist * biologize

    See also

    *

    genetics

    English

    (wikipedia genetics) (wikiversity genetics lecture)

    Noun

    (-)
  • (biology, genetics) The branch of biology that deals with the transmission and variation of inherited characteristics, in particular chromosomes and DNA.
  • (biology, genetics) The genetic makeup of a specific individual or species.
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    • As a result of your father’s, mother’s, and their parents genetics', you are born with a genetic structure that is dealt to you at conception. Our ancestry determines our ' genetics .
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    • Synonyms

    * (genetic makeup) genes

    Derived terms

    * evolutionary genetics * optogenetics * population genetics * quantitative genetics

    See also

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