definition for: genetic. Genetic can refer to: Genetics, the science of heredity. In this context, 'genetic' means passed on through heredity. Genetic (linguistics)...

A genetic disorder is a health problem caused by abnormalities in the genome. They are heritable, and may be passed down from the parents' genes to their...

Genetic engineering (GE), also called genetic modification, is a branch of applied biology. It is the changing of an organism's genome using biotechnology...

A genetic algorithm is an algorithm that imitates the process of natural selection. They help solve optimization and search problems. Genetic algorithms...

Mobile genetic elements (MGE) are a type of DNA that can move around within the genome. They include: Transposons (also called transposable elements)...

Preimplantation genetic diagnosis (PGD) is a way of checking embryo cells before they are placed, or implanted, inside a mother's body. It is also named...

Genetic drift is a random effect on biological populations. Its effect is to remove genetic variation from a population of living organisms. In natural...

The genetic code is the set of rules by which information encoded within genetic material (DNA or mRNA sequences) is translated into proteins by living...

Genetic counselling, or counseling, is how clients are advised about genetic disorders. Genetic disorders, by definition, can be passed on in heredity...

A genetically modified organism (GMO) is an organism whose genetic material has been altered using genetic engineering techniques. Organisms that have...

Genetically modified food (GM food) is food which has been produced using organisms that have been engineered genetically (GM organisms). GM food contains...

Genetic screening finds out genetic susceptibility to a particular disease. Genetic testing identifies differences in chromosomes, genes, or proteins...

The history of genetic engineering started around 12,000 BC. At the time, humans tried to domesticate animals. The first artificial genetic engineering occurred...

Genetic linkage occurs when alleles at different loci do not segregate at random. Mendel's second law is thus broken. Genes are linked when they are on...

This switch may be genetic, or it may be environmental. Taking sex determination as the example, in man the determination is genetic, by the XY sex determination...

A genetic fallacy is a kind of fallacy where something or someone is judged by its past or its origin rather than what it is in the present. An example...

Indirect genetic effects happen when a person is affected by another person's genes. This is different from direct genetic effects, when one's own genes...

Population genetics is the branch of genetics which studies the genetic composition of populations. It brings together genetics, evolution, natural selection...

This is a list of the most common genetic disorders in humans. If known, the type of mutation is shown, and the chromosome involved. P – Point mutation...

a single fertilized egg. As a result, the individual has two or more genetically different cell lines derived from a single zygote. Mosaicism may result...

A genetic bottleneck occurs when many individuals of a species are killed (or die) because of a natural event, such as a famine or a disease. The phenomenon...

Genetic genealogy is using a person's DNA and genealogy to test if that person is related to another person. It can be used by law enforcement to find...

recently. He described several rules of genetic inheritance in his work Die genetische Gesätze der Natur, 1819 (The genetic law of nature). His second law is...

higher organisms. The discovery that a gene in could be present in the genetic material as several distinct and separate segments was revolutionary. The...

bacteriophage have infected the same bacteria, the two viruses may exchange genetic information. He moved with his wife Harriet to Cold Spring Harbor, New...

won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1987. He discovered the genetic mechanism that produces antibody diversity. Although he won the Nobel Prize...

inbred strain, a group of organisms so inbred that they have little or no genetic variation, and inbreeding depression, which is the decreased fitness (usually...

show genetic recombination by crossing-over during meiosis—a mechanism by which chromosomes exchange information. She produced the first genetic map for...

embryo) or in pregnancy. The term is neutral as to whether the cause is genetic (inherited birth defect) or environmental (causes in the environment, that...

higher organisms. The discovery that a gene in could be present in the genetic material as several distinct and separate segments was revolutionary. The...

E. Orgel & F.H.C. Crick, Selfish DNA: the ultimate parasite. Normal genetically functional DNA might be seen as "replicating entities" that effect their...

genetic inheritance, meaning that it is based on whether their parents are able to do it. Many schools use tongue rolling as an example of a genetic trait...

process can be seen directly in stained cells, and indirectly if there are genetic markers or not on the chromosomes. The visible crossovers are called chiasma...

classification for the living members of the subfamily based on genetic research. These genetic lineages have been identified: Lineage 1A: Pardofelis (marbled...

pools. After replicating its genetic material, the parent cell divides into two equal sized daughter cells. The genetic material is replicated, then equally...

A gene knockout is a genetic technique in which one of an organism's genes is switched off or replaced by one which does not work. The organisms, such...

justify discrimination and injustice against people who were thought to be genetically unhealthy or inferior. Modern eugenics was first invented in 1865 by...

Bacterial conjugation is the transfer of genetic material between bacterial cells by direct cell-to-cell contact or by a bridge-like connection between...

horticulture, and with rodents used in experimental studies. A strain is a genetic variant or subtype of a microorganism, that is to say a virus or bacterium...

produced by yeast to make bread rise. Biotechnology is often used to refer to genetic engineering technology of the 21st century. The term is used for many ways...

Nucleic acids are large molecules where genetic information is stored. There are two types of nucleic acids: deoxyribonucleic acid, better known as DNA...

Hershey and Martha Chase. These experiments were to confirm that DNA was the genetic material in living things, which had previously been discovered by the...

Laureates have discovered a fundamental mechanism for controlling the flow of genetic information". The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) quoted Nick Hastie...

an organism. It helps new diagnostic strategies and new treatments for genetic diseases. It may even allow the creation of artificial forms of life. The...

Jewish descent. Brenner made significant contributions to work on the genetic code, and other areas of molecular biology. He established the roundworm...

In molecular biology, transformation is the genetic alteration of a cell by the direct uptake and expression of DNA from its surroundings. Transformation...

Medicine, along with Robert W. Holley and H. Gobind Khorana, for work on the genetic code and protein synthesis "Biography of Marshall W. Nirenberg". The Nobel...

large intestine), or in the appendix. Genetic analysis shows that essentially colon and rectal tumours are genetically the same cancer. Symptoms of colorectal...

or hormonal therapy. Aggressive prostate cancer is now known to have a genetic basis. Men with gene BRCA2 are more likely to get the cancer, and more...

lived in what is now the region of Yakutia approximately 4,500 years ago. Genetic studies have shown that the Hungarian people possess certain Y-DNA haplogroups...