geneticist
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of geneticist
Example Sentences
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Powell, the geneticist in Indiana, is a cancer biologist by training and has heard similar claims before.
From Slate • Mar. 30, 2026
It wasn’t just the incident with the gown, or the geneticist assuring me that prostate cancer would be my major BRCA-related concern.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 17, 2026
James Watson, the geneticist who discovered DNA’s double-helix structure, died Nov. 6 at 97, his late-life goal within reach.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 16, 2025
This earlier study drew the attention of a medical geneticist in Europe who had encountered two patients with unexplained muscle weakness and coordination problems.
From Science Daily • Nov. 6, 2025
Partly by happenstance, the U.S. geneticist James Neel and the U.S. anthropologist Napoleon Chagnon flew into Yanomami country in the midst of the epidemic.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
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