different between biochemistry vs genetics

English

Etymology

From bio- +? chemistry

Noun

biochemistry (countable and uncountable, plural biochemistries)

1. (uncountable) The chemistry of those compounds that occur in living organisms, and the processes that occur in their metabolism and catabolism
2. (countable) The chemical characteristics of a particular living organism

3. (countable) The biochemical activity associated with a particular chemical or condition

Related terms

• biochemical
• biochemist
• organic chemistry

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English

Wikiversity

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ??????? (génesis, “origin”). Coined by English biologist William Bateson in 1905 in a letter to zoologist Adam Sedgwick, and first used publicly by Bateson at a lecture to the International Conference on Plant Hybridization in 1906.

Pronunciation

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /d???n?.t?ks/
• IPA^(key): /d??.?n?.t?ks/

Noun

genetics (uncountable)

1. (biology, genetics) The branch of biology that deals with the transmission and variation of inherited characteristics, in particular chromosomes and DNA.
2. (biology, genetics) The genetic makeup of a specific individual or species.
   • 2005, Mark Linden O’Meara, The Feeling Soul: A Roadmap to Healing and Living, Soul Care Publishing, ?ISBN, page 45:

     As a result of your father’s, mother’s, and their parents genetics, you are born with a genetic structure that is dealt to you at conception. […] Our ancestry determines our genetics.

   Synonym: genes

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See also

• Appendix:Glossary of genetics

Occitan

Adjective

genetics

1. masculine plural of genetic