Intergenetic

adj

adj ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Pertaining to multiple genera. not-comparable

    "interspecific and intergenetic hybridization"

  2. 2
    Of or pertaining to multiple genes. not-comparable

    "My own intuition is that beneficial genetic mutations do not emerge merely as random errors in genetic copying but emerge inevitably when the optimum intergenetic and thermodynamic conditions"

  3. 3
    Pertaining to multiple languages with different roots. not-comparable

    "Intra- and intergenetic language contact led to intermediate stages of simplification of the system (Luwo, Thuri) without necessarily involving fundamental typological changes."

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"interspecific and intergenetic hybridization"

Etymology

From inter- + genetic.

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