genetic relationship
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of genetic relationship
First recorded in 1875–80
Example Sentences
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The team looked at the genetic relationship between mothers and their adult children.
From BBC • Mar. 12, 2025
The researchers also identified a genetic relationship between lice in Asia and Central America.
From Science Daily • Nov. 8, 2023
Today, many Swahili people have little genetic relationship with the medieval individuals in the study.
From Science Magazine • Mar. 29, 2023
They then analyze each salmon’s DNA, and match breeding pairs that have no genetic relationship to each other.
From New York Times • Jan. 15, 2016
For not only are all other rocks of Missouri youthful as compared with these, but there is a genetic relationship, and the former are in a sense descendants of the latter.
From North America by Russell, Israel C. (Cook)
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