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genetics | genome |

As an adjective genetics

is .

As a noun genome is

genome (complete genetic information of an organism).

genetics

English

(wikipedia genetics) (wikiversity genetics lecture)

Noun

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  • (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.
  • * 2005 , Mark Linden O’Meara, The Feeling Soul: A Roadmap to Healing and Living , Soul Care Publishing, ISBN 978-0-9680459-2-3, page 45:
    • 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

    *

    genome

    English

    Noun

    (wikipedia genome) (en noun)
  • (genetics)  The complete genetic information (either DNA or, in some viruses, RNA) of an organism.
  • *{{quote-magazine, year=2012, month=March-April
    • , author= , title=Well-connected Brains , volume=100, issue=2, page=171 , magazine=(American Scientist) citation , passage=Creating a complete map of the human connectome would therefore be a monumental milestone but not the end of the journey to understanding how our brains work. The achievement will transform neuroscience and serve as the starting point for asking questions we could not otherwise have answered, just as having the human genome has made it possible to ask new questions about cellular and molecular systems.}}

    Derived terms

    * genomic * genomics * genomewide