geneticist
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- noun
- /dʒəˈnɛtɪsɪst/
- The geneticist explained how genes influence everything from eye color to susceptibility to diseases.
- plant geneticists
- molecular geneticist
- geneticists develop
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Watch on YouTubeSo this is a show that I host with the geneticist Adam Rutherford.
- So this is a show that I host with the geneticist Adam Rutherford.
- You know, as I've looked at, I'm a human geneticist by training.
- Have you ever been to a pediatric geneticist?
- Is that more fair than getting it from your, you know, parents, doctors and geneticists?
- And his wife, his third wife I think was a woman called Helen Spurway who was a geneticist.
- They interact with each other and understanding those interactions is so complex that many behavioral geneticists say it.
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We've reactivated the old facilities, updated the technology, and imported the best geneticists from around the world.
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Some geneticists envision a future in which crop development will become a highly collaborative process.
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And so from that moment on, I wanted to be a geneticist, understand the gene and through that, understand life.
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I'm the lead geneticist of this operation.
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So this is a show that I host with the geneticist Adam Rutherford.
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Let me show you how geneticists approached this subject.
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So in my view, it makes no sense anymore to basically say, oh, I'm a geneticist studying immune disorders.
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More recently, though, Japanese geneticists found that rinderpest did not become a distinct disease until around the year 1000.
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George Church, who's a famous geneticist at Harvard, has always said synthetic biologists should have a license.
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"The Russian bees are the same species as our domesticated honey bee," says ARS geneticist Thomas E. Rinderer.
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Synonyms
A scientist who studies chromosomes and cell parts that pass traits from parents to children
A person who studies or supports Mendel's ideas about how traits are passed
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Etymology
Geneticist comes from the root gen-, which means 'birth' or 'origin' and appears in familiar words like gene and generate. A geneticist studies how traits are passed from parents to children, so the root helps explain the study of where living things' features come from.