Genetic

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"Genetic" in a Sentence (15 examples)

In the case of language, however, it is only the ability to talk and understand that we inherit genetically; the particular language or languages that we speak are passed on to us not by genetic transmission but by cultural transmission.

There seems to be some genetic problem with this animal.

All of these abilities are passed on to us by genetic transmission; we receive them by way of the genes that we inherit from our parents.

Through genetic engineering, corn can produce its own pesticides.

Should we use genetic engineering on people?

Does genetic engineering improve nature?

Through genetic modification, we can improve crops.

The chromosomes in our cells contain the whole of our genetic material.

Our genetic material is being constantly invaded by small egocentric molecular parasites.

Genetic diseases are mostly uncurable.

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Plant breeding is always a numbers game.[…]The wild species we use are rich in genetic variation, and individual plants are highly heterozygous and do not breed true. In addition, we are looking for rare alleles, so the more plants we try, the better.

“DNA from hunter-gatherers is present at higher levels in Northeastern Europe, which means the region has an elevated genetic risk of developing Alzheimer’s disease,” Barrie said.

All evidence tends to this conclusion, that the sun is the prime genetic agent of earthquakes and of every other pluto-dynamic impulse which acts against the crust of the planet, and breaks or elevates any of its parts.

Chinese has borrowed several words from English, but it does not have a genetic relationship to English.

Guy Stroumsa (2011) proposes the use of the alternative term Abrahamic religions, emphasizing the genetic relationship between Judaism, Christianity, and Islam and their branches, for which the idea of monotheism is not always central.

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