genetic

Meanings

1. 1
   adj

   of or relating to the science of genetics

   genetic research

2. 2
   adj

   pertaining to or referring to origin

   genetic history reconstructs the origins of a literary work

3. 3
   adj

   Relating to genetics or genes.

   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.

4. 4
   adj

   Of or relating to origin (genesis).

   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.

5. 5
   adj

   Based on shared membership in a linguistic family.

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

6. 6
   adj

   Based on a shared membership in a religious family.

   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.

7. 7
   adj

   occurring among members of a family usually by heredity

8. 8
   adj

   of or relating to or produced by or being a gene

Etymology

Coined from genesis, similarly to antithesis, antithetic. Reflects Ancient Greek γενετικός (genetikós), from γένεσις (génesis) + -κός (-kós). Ultimately from Ancient Greek γίγνομαι (gígnomai, “I come into being”). By surface analysis, gene + -tic or gen(esis) + -etic.