genetics alone does not an eating disorder make, generally speaking, and Bulik points out that environment still plays a role.
Nature and nurture, genetics and family background all come into play.
“Keep in mind that our body shape is often determined by genetics,” says Dr. Ball.
Recent research has shown perfectionism to be an issue of genetics.
genetics, environmental factors, and other variables contribute to weight gain and eating disorders.
If, then, progress was to be made in genetics, work of a different kind was required.
It sprang from genetics and bears the mark of an implicit Darwinian mechanism.
The metaphors of genetics and evolutionary models can be applied.
I've been studying up on biology and genetics; talking to Chang got me interested.
Lindstrom of Iowa has led in research on the genetics of tomatoes, chromosome relations and mode of inheritance.
genetics ge·net·ics (jə-nět'ĭks)
n.
The branch of biology that deals with heredity, especially the mechanisms of hereditary transmission and the variation of inherited traits among similar or related organisms.
The study of heredity, or how the characteristics of living things are transmitted from one generation to the next. Every living thing contains the genetic material that makes up DNA molecules. This material is passed on when organisms reproduce. The basic unit of heredity is the gene. (See chromosomes; dominant trait; genetic code; Gregor Mendel; recessive trait; and sexual reproduction.)
