genetics
noun/dʒəˈnetɪks/
/dʒəˈnetɪks/
[uncountable]- the scientific study of the ways in which different characteristics are passed from each generation of living things to the nextTopics Biologyb2Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective
- evolutionary
- molecular
- medical
- …
- the science of genetics
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