Antonyms for genetics
| Grammar : Noun |
| Spell : juh-net-iks |
| Phonetic Transcription : dʒəˈnɛt ɪks |
Definition of genetics
Origin :- 1872, "laws of origination;" see genetic + -ics. A coinage of English biologist William Bateson (1861-1926). Meaning "study of heredity" is from 1891.
- As in botany : noun study of plants
- As in anatomy : noun study of animal, plant structure
- As in genealogy : noun person's family tree
- As in heredity : noun transmission of traits from parents to offspring
- If, then, progress was to be made in Genetics, work of a different kind was required.
- Extract from : « Evolution in Modern Thought » by Ernst Haeckel
- It sprang from genetics and bears the mark of an implicit Darwinian mechanism.
- Extract from : « The Civilization of Illiteracy » by Mihai Nadin
- The metaphors of genetics and evolutionary models can be applied.
- Extract from : « The Civilization of Illiteracy » by Mihai Nadin
- I've been studying up on biology and genetics; talking to Chang got me interested.
- Extract from : « This Crowded Earth » by Robert Bloch
- Lindstrom of Iowa has led in research on the genetics of tomatoes, chromosome relations and mode of inheritance.
- Extract from : « The Tomato » by Paul Work
- Most students of genetics realize that a factor difference usually affects more than a single character.
- Extract from : « A Critique of the Theory of Evolution » by Thomas Hunt Morgan
- The formalism of memetics reminds many of us of formal languages, as well as of the shorthand used in genetics.
- Extract from : « The Civilization of Illiteracy » by Mihai Nadin
- General biology and the science of Genetics are bringing to light much that must be incorporated in Sociology.
- Extract from : « The Group Mind » by William McDougall
- The terminology is based on today's fashionable lingo of genetics, and of memetics, its counterpart.
- Extract from : « The Civilization of Illiteracy » by Mihai Nadin
- They also opened new horizons for hypotheses in astronomy, genetics, anthropology.
- Extract from : « The Civilization of Illiteracy » by Mihai Nadin
Synonyms for genetics
- analysis
- anatomy
- ancestry
- biology
- blood line
- congenital traits
- constitution
- cytology
- dendrology
- derivation
- descent
- diagnosis
- dissection
- division
- ecology
- embryology
- etiology
- eugenics
- examination
- extraction
- floristics
- generation
- genesiology
- genetic make-up
- genetics
- heredity
- histology
- history
- horticulture
- inborn character
- inheritance
- inquiry
- investigation
- line
- lineage
- medicine
- morphology
- natural history
- paleo-botany
- parentage
- pathology
- pedigree
- physiology
- phytogeography
- phytology
- pomology
- progeniture
- stemma
- stirps
- stock
- strain
- study of flora
- study of vegetation
- taxonomy
- zoology
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