genetic science
- noun
- /dʒəˈnɛtɪk ˈsaɪəns/
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ciencia genética
- Students are eager to study genetic science to contribute to important medical research.
Examples
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Debating the ethics of genetic science is essential as it affects future generations.
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These reflections also suggest some of the difficulties that genetic sciences face with regard to the human genome.
Academic text (2005) -
Their actual predictive value, based on the best currently available genetic science, is approximately zero," says Claude Bouchard, a professor of genetics at Pennington, who was the senior author of the 2010 study with Dr. Timmons, but has no involvement with XRGenomics.
Blog text (17) -
These reflections point to the impermanent and hubristic attempts of genetic science to modify so-called genetic anomalies in light of the almost always temporary state of nondisabled.
Academic text (2005) -
The advances in genetic science have led to many new therapies for inherited diseases.
Synonyms
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The study of how traits like eye colour or height pass from parents to children
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning is directly and compositional: 'genetic' (relating to genes/heredity) combined with 'science' (a field of study) yields 'the scientific study of genes/heredity.' This is a standard noun-noun/adj+noun formation found across languages, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents will readily infer the MWE meaning.
Etymology
The term genetic science uses a simple image: genetic means tiny instructions inside every cell and science means the study of those instructions. So genetic science is the study of how traits pass from parents ('heredity') and why living things differ ('variation').