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genealogy
  1. (countable) The descent of a person, family, or group from an ancestor or ancestors; lineage or pedigree.
  2. (countable) A record or table of such descent; a family tree.
  3. (uncountable) The study, and formal recording of such descents.
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  5. Examples:
    1. “Betty was also an avid reader and became an authority on Irish and local history, and family genealogy.”
      “This weblog genealogy thing is wicked awesome, but I'm not so sure how to go about it.”
      “It is a mystery, but a delightful one, even if you care not a jot for genealogy.”
gene
  1. (genetics) A theoretical unit of heredity of living organisms ; a gene may take several values and in principle predetermines a precise trait of an organism's form (phenotype), such as hair color.
  2. (molecular biology) A segment of DNA or RNA from a cell's or an organism's genome, that may take several forms and thus parameterizes a phenomenon, in general the structure of a protein; locus.
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    1. “Several members of this group were found to contain a gene lying downstream of the YR gene that codes for a protein of unknown function.”
      “The next chapter gives excellent coverage of biosafety issues such as allergens and gene flow with considerable literature references.”
      “Typically, altered gene dosage caused by karyotypic abnormalities results in embryonic lethality or birth defects.”
genetics
  1. (biology) The branch of biology that deals with the transmission and variation of inherited characteristics, in particular chromosomes and DNA.
  2. (biology) The genetic makeup of a specific individual or species.
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  4. Examples:
    1. “This low yield grade for cattle with high quality grades is most likely a result of early weaning and Wagyu genetics.”
      “As I look at this photo of her as a young woman, I can't help but ponder the strange quirks of genetics.”
      “The natural extension of his work on the genetics of pigmentation led him into a study of piebald mice, this turned out to be a quagmire.”
geneticist
  1. (genetics) A scientist who studies genes.
  2. (medicine) A physician who diagnoses, treats, and counsels patients with genetic disorders or syndromes.
  3. Examples:
    1. “You can't buy it in a bottle, hire a custom applicator to put it on or a molecular geneticist to jockey genes for it around in a lab.”
      “A Forest Service staff geneticist planted them anyway, and the seeds sprouted.”
      “The director, Whitman, was an experimental geneticist and spent years in the study of hybrid doves and pigeons.”
geneflow
  1. (genetics) The transfer of alleles or genes between populations
  2. Examples:
    1. “The taxonomy of gulls is confused by their widespread distribution zones of hybridization leading to geneflow.”
genesis
  1. The origin, start, or point at which something comes into being.
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    1. “The goals now being set are different from those which existed at its genesis.”
      “The team's work in linking medical science to the social and behavioral sciences is recognized as the genesis for social epidemiology.”
      “All summer long, we have shown you each step in the genesis of the new model, from design to crash tests.”
genesiology
  1. (obsolete) The study of generation (reproduction)
geneset
  1. A set of genes (with a specified function)
genethics
  1. (genetics) The ethics of genetics
geneticization
  1. The process of geneticizing.
geneticists
  1. plural of geneticist
  2. Examples:
    1. “According to geneticists, the overwhelming majority of people who think they have American Indian forebears are wrong.”
      “Clinical molecular geneticists spend their working lives finding, naming, and investigating genetic mutations.”
      “For geneticists, epistasis is associated with the limits of the additive model of gene action.”
genealogies
  1. plural of genealogy
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  3. Examples:
    1. “Here, ancestral Brahmin priests give blessings with holy water and fill in records of family genealogies.”
      “Shallow intraspecific gene genealogies characterize many marine fishes although sister taxa often show considerable genetic divergence.”
      “In this context, the brown trout is an appropriate organism to study the utility of nuclear gene genealogies for evolutionary inferences.”
geneflows
  1. plural of geneflow
geneses
  1. plural of genesis
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  3. Examples:
    1. “I tend to believe that texts are better considered as things with geneses and effects than as things which manifest positions.”
      “Although many familiar ads are repeated in this new book, the stories of their geneses are often illuminating.”
      “The majority of men content themselves with the grain of rice sown in the first chapter of all the geneses.”
genesets
  1. plural of geneset
genes
  1. plural of gene
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  3. Examples:
    1. “I don't think that anything is known yet about the number, position, dominance, co-dominance or recessiveness of genes for behavior.”
      “Transferred genes are subject to those mutational processes affecting the recipient genome.”
      “Most of these studies have focused mainly on targeting genes in the aerial parts of the plant.”
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