1) genetics. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...genetics, scientific study of the mechanism of heredity. While Gregor Mendel first presented his findings on the statistical laws governing the transmission of certain...
2) conjugation, in genetics. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...conjugation, in genetics, in genetics: see recombination....
3) Eve, in genetics. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...Eve, in genetics, in genetics, popular term for a theoretical female ancestor of all living people. In 1987 biochemist Allan C. Wilson proposed that all living human...
4) genetics. The New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy, Third Edition. 2002
...genetics 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...
5) molecular genetics. The American HeritageŽ Dictionary of the English
Language: Fourth Edition. 2000.
...(used with a sing. verb) The branch of genetics that deals with the expression of genes by studying the DNA sequences of chromosomes....
6) population genetics. The American HeritageŽ Dictionary of the English
Language: Fourth Edition. 2000.
...(used with a sing. verb) The branch of science that deals with the statistical analysis of the inheritance and prevalence of genes in populations....
7) behavioral genetics. The American HeritageŽ Dictionary of the English
Language: Fourth Edition. 2000.
...The study of the genetic underpinnings of behavioral phenotypes such as eating or mating activity, substance abuse, social attitudes, violence, and mental abilities....
8) genome. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...genome, see genetics....
9) transformation. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...transformation, in genetics: see recombination....
10) transduction. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...transduction, in genetics: see recombination....
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