different between genetics vs eugenics

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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

English

Etymology

Coined by Francis Galton in 1883. From ??? (e?s, “good”) +? ???????? (gígnomai, “breeding”), “well-bred”, “good in stock”. Parallel to Eugene.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ju??d??n?ks/

Noun

eugenics (uncountable)

1. (sociology, biology) A social philosophy or practice which advocates the improvement of human hereditary qualities through selective breeding, either by encouraging people with good genetic qualities to reproduce (positive eugenics), or discouraging people with bad genetic qualities from reproducing (negative eugenics), or by technological means.

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See also

• human enhancement
• reprogenetics
• stirpiculture

Further reading

• eugenics on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

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