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genetic
CIDE DICTIONARY
genetic, a.
- Same as Genetical. [1913 Webster]
- Of or pertaining to genes or genetics; as, the genetic code. [PJC]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
genetic, adj.
1 of genetics or genes; inherited.
2 of, in, or concerning origin; causal.
1 of genetics or genes; inherited.
2 of, in, or concerning origin; causal.
Idiom
genetic code Biochem. the means by which genetic information is stored as sequences of nucleotide bases in the chromosomal DNA. genetic engineering the deliberate modification of the characters of an organism by the manipulation of DNA and the transformation of certain genes. genetic fingerprinting (or profiling) the analysis of characteristic patterns in DNA as a means of identifying individuals.
Derivative
genetically adv.
Etymology
GENESIS after antithetic
THESAURUS
genetic
abiogenetic, aboriginal, advancing, atavistic, basal, basic, biogenetic, blastogenetic, bodily, born, bradytelic, central, clannish, coeval, congenital, connatal, connate, connatural, constitutional, crucial, developing, elemental, elementary, embryonic, epigenetic, ethnic, eumerogenetic, evolutional, evolutionist, evolutionistic, evolving, family, fundamental, gametic, generative, genial, genic, genital, genitive, gentile, gentilic, germinal, hereditary, heterogenetic, histogenetic, homogenetic, horotelic, in embryo, in ovo, in the blood, inborn, inbred, incarnate, indigenous, inherited, innate, instinctive, instinctual, isogenetic, lineal, matroclinous, maturational, maturative, maturing, merogenetic, metagenetic, monogenetic, national, native, native to, natural, natural to, ontogenetic, organic, original, orthogenetic, pangenetic, parthenogenetic, patrimonial, patroclinous, phyletic, phylogenetic, physical, physiogenetic, phytogenetic, plasmatic, plasmic, pregnant, primal, primary, primeval, primitive, primordial, pristine, progressing, protogenic, protoplasmic, racial, radical, rudimentary, seminal, sporogenous, tachytelic, temperamental, totemic, tribal, unfolding, xenogeneticROGET THESAURUS
genetic
Production
N production, creation, construction, formation, fabrication, manufacture, building, architecture, erection, edification, coinage, diaster, organization, nisus formativus, putting together, establishment, workmanship, performance, achievement, flowering, fructification, inflorescence, bringing forth, parturition, birth, birth-throe, childbirth, delivery, confinement, accouchement, travail, labor, midwifery, obstetrics, geniture, gestation, assimilation, evolution, development, growth, entelechy, fertilization, gemination, germination, heterogamy, genesis, generation, epigenesis, procreation, progeneration, propagation, fecundation, impregnation, albumen, spontaneous generation, archegenesis, archebiosis, biogenesis, abiogenesis, digenesis, dysmerogenesis, eumerogenesis, heterogenesis, oogenesis, merogenesis, metogenesis, monogenesis, parthenogenesis, homogenesis, xenogenesis, authorship, publication, works, opus, oeuvre, biogeny, dissogeny, xenogeny, tocogony, vacuolization, edifice, building, structure, fabric, erection, pile, tower, flower, fruit, produced, producing, productive of, prolific, creative, formative, genetic, genial, genital, pregnant, enceinte, big with, fraught with, in the family way, teeming, parturient, in the straw, brought to bed of, puerperal, puerperous, digenetic, heterogenetic, oogenetic, xenogenetic, ectogenous, gamic, haematobious, sporogenous, sporophorous, architectonic, ex nihilo nihil, fiat lux, materiam superabat opus, nemo dat quod non habet.For further exploring for "genetic" in Webster Dictionary Online