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Meaning of GENETIC

Pronunciation:  ju'netik

WordNet Dictionary
 
 Definition: 
  1. [adj]  tending to occur among members of a family usually by heredity; "an inherited disease"; "familial traits"; "genetically transmitted features"
  2. [adj]  of or relating to the science of genetics; "genetic research"
  3. [adj]  of or relating to or produced by or being a gene; "genic combinations"; "genetic code"
 
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 Synonyms: familial, genetical, genic, hereditary, heritable, inheritable, inherited, transmissible, transmitted
 

 

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary
 
 Definition: 
\Ge*net"ic\, a.
Same as {Genetical}.
 
Medical Dictionary
 
 Definition: Inherited; having to do with information that is passed from parents to offspring through genes in sperm and egg cells.
 
Thesaurus Terms
 
 Related Terms: 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, xenogenetic
 

 

 

 

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