genetic
1 Americanadjective
Other Word Forms
- genetically adverb
- hypergenetic adjective
- hypergenetical adjective
- hypergenetically adverb
- hypergeneticalness noun
- nongenetic adjective
- nongenetical adjective
- nongenetically adverb
Etymology
Origin of genetic
Example Sentences
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Despite it being a genetic condition, Andy's parents were just carriers of the condition, so he had never been around someone who had dealt with eyesight loss.
From BBC
The treatment also helped preserve communication between different types of kidney cells and reduced age-related inflammatory activity at the genetic level.
From Science Daily
"Macrophages are found in every type of tumor, sometimes outnumbering the cancer cells. They're there because the tumor uses them as a shield," says senior author Brian Brown, PhD, Director of the Icahn Genomics Institute, Vice Chair of Immunology and Immunotherapy, Associate Director of the Marc and Jennifer Lipschultz Precision Immunology Institute, and Mount Sinai Professor of Genetic Engineering, at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai.
From Science Daily
One is DNA damage repair, the system cells use to detect and fix genetic damage.
From Science Daily
By introducing the same genetic "driver mutation" found in patients into the GPCs of mice, they successfully reproduced key steps of brain tumor development.
From Science Daily
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