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Genetic

adjective

Occurring among members of a family usually by heredity. Synonyms: familial, hereditary, inherited, transmissible, transmitted. "Familial traits" , "Genetically transmitted features"

Of or relating to or produced by or being a gene. Synonyms: genetical, genic. "Genetic code"

Pertaining to or referring to origin.

Of or relating to the science of genetics. Synonym: genetical.

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"Genetic" Quotes from Famous Books

... clear, and consequently were possible; now, as these solutions are often contradictory, nothing shows better than their collation the distance between possibility and fact. Thus the materialists, who, like the idealists, have put forward a genetic theory of the mind, have conceived mind as produced by matter;—a conception diametrically opposed to that of the idealists. It may be said that these two conceptions, opposed in sense, annul each other, and that each of these ...

— The Mind and the Brain - Being the Authorised Translation of L'me et le Corps • Alfred Binet

... right, Witsky, that you should mislead a stranger,' put in his sallow, spectacled neighbour. 'Or perhaps you misconceive the genetic moments of your own programme. What evolution is clearly leading to is a Jewish ...

— Ghetto Comedies • Israel Zangwill

Words linked to "Genetic" : inheritable, origin, heritable, gene