genetics

名词 n.
中文释义
英 /dʒəˈnɛt.ɪks/|/dʒɪ-/    美 /dʒəˈnɛt.ɪks/|/dʒɪ-/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. The branch of biology that deals with the transmission and variation of inherited characteristics, in particular chromosomes and DNA. uncountable
    — If we want to raise mangels that will not run to seed, or to breed a cow that will give more milk in less time, or milk with more butter and less water, we can turn to Genetics with every hope that something can be done in these laudable directions.
  2. The genetic makeup of a specific individual or species. uncountable
    — As a result of your father’s, mother’s, and their parents genetics, you are born with a genetic structure that is dealt to you at conception. […] Our ancestry determines our genetics.

词汇关系

衍生词
anthropogenetics antigenetics archaeogenetics biogenetics cardiogenetics chemogenetics cytogenetics demogenetics dysgenetics ecogenetics epigenetics evolutionary genetics forward genetics genethics geogenetics immunogenetics landscape genetics magnetogenetics memetics metagenetics molecular genetics morphogenetics nephrogenetics neurogenetics oncogenetics optogenetics orthogenetics palaeogenetics paleogenetics pathogenetics pharmacogenetics phenogenetics population genetics psychogenetics quantitative genetics radiogenetics reprogenetics reverse genetics sociogenetics sonogenetics telegenetics therapygenetics thermogenetics toxicogenetics

词源

From Ancient Greek γένεσις (génesis, “origin”). Coined by English biologist William Bateson in 1905 in a letter to zoologist Adam Sedgwick, and first used publicly by Bateson at a lecture to the International Conference on Plant Hybridization in 1906.
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