genetics (n)
genetic science (n)

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type n
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def the branch of biology that studies heredity and variation in organisms
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Hypernym biology, biological science
Derivationally related form genetics → genetic; genetics → geneticist
Derivationally related form genetics → genetical
Member of this domain - TOPIC dominant; recessive; haploid, haploidic, monoploid; diploid; polyploid; triploid; homozygous; heterozygous; monogenic; polygenic; univalent; bivalent, double; multivalent; parental; filial; transformation; hybridization, hybridisation, crossbreeding, crossing, cross, interbreeding, hybridizing; mapping, chromosome mapping; carrier; amphidiploid; diploid; haploid; heteroploid; polyploid; hybrid, crossbreed, cross; vector; cosmid; character; unit character; inheritance, hereditary pattern; heterosis, hybrid vigor; linkage, gene linkage; zygote, fertilized ovum; heterozygote; homozygote; gene, cistron, factor; allele, allelomorph; haplotype; XX; XXX; XXY; XY; XYY; sex chromosome; Mendel's law; recombination; mutation, genetic mutation, chromosomal mutation; deletion; inversion; transposition; insertional mutagenesis; point mutation, gene mutation; reversion; saltation; dominance; position effect; polymorphism; single nucleotide polymorphism, SNP; expression; meiosis, miosis, reduction division; replication; segregation; transcription; transduction; translation; translocation; translate
Hyponym cytogenetics; genomics; proteomics; molecular genetics; pharmacogenetics
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Domain of synset - TOPIC dominant; recessive; haploid, haploidic, monoploid; diploid; polyploid; triploid; homozygous; heterozygous; monogenic; polygenic; univalent; bivalent, double; multivalent; parental; filial; transformation; hybridization, hybridisation, crossbreeding, crossing, cross, interbreeding, hybridizing; mapping, chromosome mapping; carrier; amphidiploid; diploid; haploid; heteroploid; polyploid; hybrid, crossbreed, cross; vector; cosmid; character; unit character; inheritance, hereditary pattern; heterosis, hybrid vigor; linkage, gene linkage; zygote, fertilized ovum; heterozygote; homozygote; gene, cistron, factor; allele, allelomorph; haplotype; XX; XXX; XXY; XY; XYY; sex chromosome; Mendel's law; recombination; mutation, genetic mutation, chromosomal mutation; deletion; inversion; transposition; insertional mutagenesis; point mutation, gene mutation; reversion; saltation; dominance; position effect; polymorphism; single nucleotide polymorphism, SNP; expression; meiosis, miosis, reduction division; replication; segregation; transcription; transduction; translation; translocation; translate
Derivationally related form genetical → genetics
Derivationally related form genetic → genetics; geneticist → genetics
Pertainym (pertains to noun) genetic → genetics
Hyponym biology, biological science
Hypernym cytogenetics; genomics; proteomics; molecular genetics; pharmacogenetics

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