Synonym: familial, genetical, genic, hereditary, inherited, transmissible, transmitted. Similar words: magnetic, gene, at one time, generous, generate, in general, generation gap, athletic. Meaning: [dʒɪ'netɪk] adj. 1. tending to occur among members of a family usually by heredity 2. of or relating to or produced by or being a gene 3. pertaining to or referring to origin 4. of or relating to the science of genetics.
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91. As the mysteries of many infectious and nutritional diseases have been solved, what remain are the chronic disorders with genetic origins.
92. The reason for this is interesting, and worth a digression because it provides a good genetic analogy.
93. The existing pool offered too little genetic diversity to support energetic research, they said.
94. The unusual geographical distribution is equally compatible with a genetic component.
95. The human species has probably not undergone much genetic change in recorded time.
96. They are worried that genetic differences imported into the native flora will have profound ecological consequences.
97. Greenpeace is deeply concerned that this development will lead to monopoly control over genetic resources and an even greater dependence on herbicides.
98. The pair announced that they had identified a genetic defect in the dopamine system of some alcoholics.
99. It is the gradual reorganisation of the genetic program, the software coded into DNA sequences.
100. As a result of increased public interest, more than a dozen states have passed laws that prohibit insurers from genetic discrimination.
101. Genetic engineering techniques will speed up the development process for the AIDS vaccine, but these experimental new techniques still require time.
102. The prospect of genetic intervention is much more appealing as it gets to the core of the problem.
103. Bradley and colleagues are well aware of these problems as they seek to justify newborn screening for this untreatable genetic disorder.
104. Such behavioral diversity serves the same function as genetic diversity,[http://sentencedict.com/genetic.html] and indeed compensates for restrictions on genetic diversity.
105. Another possibility is that the genetic regulation of the isotype response is different in the two populations of inflammatory bowel disease patients.
106. Voice over Police are now using DNA testing, or genetic fingerprinting in an attempt to track down the rapist.
107. Genetic evidence A number of studies have now firmly established the existence of a genetic component in the transmission of schizophrenia.
108. About one child in 20 admitted to hospital has some kind of genetic disorder.
109. The offspring, however, are slightly different from one another in genetic endowment.
110. Finally, it might be the result of an interplay between genetic and environmental factors.
111. Underlying genetic characteristics and treatment variables may be associated with an increased risk of radiation-associated brain tumours.
112. Complaints of headaches should be taken seriously and genetic counselling made available at the appropriate time.
113. Genetic epistemology is the science of how knowledge is acquired.
114. Now that scientists have access to human embryos, the question of genetic engineering arises.
115. In real-life evolution there is nothing that corresponds to steering towards some distant genetic target.
116. Such anxieties are still informed by nineteenth-century pseudo-scientific genetic and biological explanations of racial difference and comprise distortion, fantasy and myth.
117. Finding a remedy may be easier because there is less of a genetic component.
118. The finding could ultimately lead to a way to correct the genetic defect, scientists say.
119. A clear example of a mutation altering development is the inherited genetic defect, sickle cell anaemia.
120. For the genetic engineers, the grail of nitrogen-fixation remains unattainable.
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