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Title genetics
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Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary
ge·net·ics

 \\jə-ˈne-tiks\\ noun plural but singular in construction
 DATE  1905
1. a branch of biology that deals with the heredity and variation of organisms
2. the genetic makeup and phenomena of an organism, type, group, or condition
• ge·net·i·cist 
 \\-ˈne-tə-sist\\ noun
Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary-牛津双解-OALD7
genetics
gen·et·ics dVE5netiks / noun[U]
   the scientific study of the ways in which different characteristics are passed from each generation of living things to the next
   遗传学
Oxford Collocations Dictionary for Students of English
Oxford Collocations dictionary for students of English


genetics 
nou
ADJ. evolutionary | molecular | medical | human, plant | population | Mendelian 

PHRASES the science of genetics 
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Webster's Third New International Dictionary, Unabridged
ge·net·ics
\]iks, ]ēks\ noun plural but singular in construction
1. 
 a. : a branch of biology that deals with the heredity and variation of organisms and with the mechanisms by which these are effected
 b. : a treatise or textbook on this subject
2. : the genetic makeup and phenomena of an organism, type, group, or condition
 < the genetics of drosophila >
3. : 
genesis
 < the psychological analysis of religious experience; its geneticsand causal conditions — F.P.Clarke >
 < a classification of clouds based on … their physical and meteorological genetics and structure — D.W.Perrie >

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