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US
/dʒəˈnɛtəsəst/
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[ UK /dʒɛnˈɛtɪsˌɪst/ ]
[ UK /dʒɛnˈɛtɪsˌɪst/ ]
NOUN
- a biologist who specializes in genetics
How To Use geneticist In A Sentence
- geneticists only recently discovered the identity of the gene that causes it
- You can't buy it in a bottle, hire a custom applicator to put it on or a molecular geneticist to jockey genes for it around in a lab.
- Meanwhile, corals bud on, and both their sexual and asexual activities provide evidence of reproductive success and hybrid forms that continue to puzzle geneticists.
- A geneticist, he researched in the fields of muscular dystrophy and motor neurone disease. Times, Sunday Times
- A new world is opening up, one that is so much more complex than the genomic world," said Moshe Szyf , an epigeneticist at Canada's McGill University. Whew! Your DNA Isn't Your Destiny
- American geneticist Calvin Bridges discovered copy number variation in 1936, when he noticed that flies that inherit a duplicate copy of a gene called Bar develop very small eyes.
- The study, which was published in the journal Nature, is a giant leap in geneticists' quest to better understand the strange witches' brew of nature and nurture that makes us who we are.
- Geneticists will be able to track the same set of genes across a variety of species - say, the genes for backbones in vertebrates.
- Geneticists aren't saying there is no such thing as human variation across geographical distance; they're just saying that that variation is clinal. Races as folk taxonomies without biological basis.
- Krause, a geneticist at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, and his colleagues extracted DNA from two 38,000-year-old Neanderthals collected from El Sidron Cave in Asturias, Spain. Could Neanderthals Communicate? | Impact Lab