English > geneticist: 1 sense > noun 1, person | Meaning | A biologist who specializes in genetics. |
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| Instances | Cline, Martin Cline | American geneticist who succeeded in transferring a functioning gene from one mouse to another (born in 1934) |
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| Haldane, J. B. S. Haldane, John Burdon Sanderson Haldane | Scottish geneticist (son of John Haldane) who contributed to the development of population genetics |
| Lysenko, Trofim Denisovich Lysenko | Soviet geneticist whose adherence to Lamarck's theory of evolution was favored / favored by Stalin (1898-1976) |
| Muller, Hermann Joseph Muller | United States geneticist who studied the effects of X-rays on genes (1890-1967) |
| Ventner, Craig Ventner, J. Craig Ventner | United States geneticist who published the complete base sequences for all the genes of a free-living organism, the influenza bacterium |
| Watson, James Watson, James Dewey Watson | United States geneticist who (with Crick in 1953) helped discover the helical structure / structure of DNA (born in 1928) |
| Weismann, August Friedrich Leopold Weismann | German biologist who was one of the founders of modern genetics |
| Wilmut, Ian Wilmut | English geneticist who succeeded in cloning a sheep from a cell from an adult ewe (born in 1944) |
| Narrower | cytogeneticist | A geneticist who specializes in the cellular components associated with heredity |
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| Broader | biologist, life scientist | (biology) a scientist who studies living organisms |
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| Spanish | geneticista, genético, genetista |
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| Catalan | genetista |
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| Nouns | genetics | the branch of biology that studies heredity and variation in organisms |
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