Eventually, genetics and the world economy caught up with the company.
“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.
This is not the most cutting-edge survey of the science of genetics.
The pioneers of genetics rarely need to trumpet the power of their science.
Eugenics is the science of reproducing better humans by applying the established laws of genetics or heredity.
It sprang from genetics and bears the mark of an implicit Darwinian mechanism.
They also opened new horizons for hypotheses in astronomy, genetics, anthropology.
If, then, progress was to be made in genetics, work of a different kind was required.
But a better definition, based on the results of genetics, looks at it as a mechanism, not as an external appearance.
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.)
