geneticist
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1. a biologist who specializes in genetics (noun.person)
| hyponym | : | cytogeneticist, |
| definition | : | a geneticist who specializes in the cellular components associated with heredity (noun.person) |
| instance hyponym | : | cline, martin cline, |
| definition | : | American geneticist who succeeded in transferring a functioning gene from one mouse to another (born in 1934) (noun.person) |
| instance hyponym | : | lysenko, trofim denisovich lysenko, |
| definition | : | Soviet geneticist whose adherence to Lamarck's theory of evolution was favored by Stalin (1898-1976) (noun.person) |
| instance hyponym | : | hermann joseph muller, muller, |
| definition | : | United States geneticist who studied the effects of X-rays on genes (1890-1967) (noun.person) |
| instance hyponym | : | craig ventner, j. craig ventner, ventner, |
| definition | : | United States geneticist who published the complete base sequences for all the genes of a free-living organism, the influenza bacterium; later led team that developed a first draft of the entire human genome (born in 1946) (noun.person) |
| instance hyponym | : | james dewey watson, james watson, watson, |
| definition | : | United States geneticist who (with Crick in 1953) helped discover the helical structure of DNA (born in 1928) (noun.person) |
| instance hyponym | : | august friedrich leopold weismann, weismann, |
| definition | : | German biologist who was one of the founders of modern genetics; his theory of genetic transmission ruled out the possibility of transmitting acquired characteristics (1834-1914) (noun.person) |
| instance hyponym | : | ian wilmut, wilmut, |
| definition | : | English geneticist who succeeded in cloning a sheep from a cell from an adult ewe (born in 1944) (noun.person) |
| derivation | : | genetic science, genetics, |
| definition | : | the branch of biology that studies heredity and variation in organisms (noun.cognition) |
| derivation | : | genetic science, genetics, |
| definition | : | the branch of biology that studies heredity and variation in organisms (noun.cognition) |
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