Phrase Hound found 7 phrases and 36 compound words that contain genetics. The most common are listed below. Open genetics in the live search for definitions, filters, and the full list.
Phrases 7
- molecular geneticsA field of biology which studies the structure and function of genes at a molecular level.
- landscape geneticsA discipline that analyses the influence of landscape and environmental features on the genetic structure of a population.
- forward geneticsThe practice of finding genes corresponding to known phenotypes.
- population geneticsThe study of the allele frequency distribution and change under the influence of the four evolutionary processes: natural selection, genetic drift, mutation and gene flow.
- reverse geneticsThe practice of identifying the functions of known genes.
- quantitative geneticsThe study of the genetic basis of continuously varying phenotypic traits in a population.
- evolutionary geneticsThe study of evolutionary processes in an ecological context in order to account for phenotypic patterns observed in nature.
Compound words 36
- memeticsThe study of memes and their social and cultural effects.
- epigeneticsThe study of the processes involved in the genetic development of an organism, especially the activation and deactivation of genes.
- biogeneticsgenetic engineering
- morphogeneticsThe study of morphogenesis.
- anthropogeneticsThe study of the origins and development of human beings and of human genetics.
- paleogeneticsThe application of genetics to palaeontology.
- antigeneticsOpposing genetics.
- cardiogeneticscardiological genetics
- chemogeneticsA variant of optogenetics that uses chemically-engineered molecules instead of light
- demogeneticsThe genetics of populations of organisms