geneticist

[juh-net-uh-sist]

noun

1. a specialist or expert in genetics.

Word History and Origins

Origin of geneticist¹

First recorded in 1910–15; genetic + -ist

Example Sentences

It would take a psychologist or geneticist to determine if there’s something in the minds or molecular makeup of party faithful, which could explain their varied treatment of those humbled and vanquished.

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One did not respond; scheduling difficulties meant that Salon had not received a response to written questions posed to the other scientist, Stanford Medicine geneticist Michael Snyder, by press time.

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Church, the company’s geneticist cofounder, is not a billionaire and holds no equity in Colossal, according to reporting by Forbes.

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"These ginger and black patches form because, early in development, one X chromosome in each cell is randomly switched off," explains Prof Hiroyuki Sasaki, geneticist at Kyushu University.

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Zoo geneticists will work with the eight new iguanas to determine whether they were poached directly from the wild or bred illegally, and which island they may have originally come from.

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