Genetic may refer to:
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Genetics, in biology, the science of genes, heredity, and the variation of organisms
**Genetic, used as an adjective, refers to
genes
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Genetic disorder, any disorder caused by a genetic mutation, whether inherited or de novo
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mutation, a change in a gene
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Heredity, genes and their mutations being passed from parents to offspring
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Genetic recombination, refers to the recombining of alleles resulting in a new molecule of DNA
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Genetic relationship (linguistics), in linguistics, a relationship between two languages with a common ancestor language
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Genetic algorithm
In computer science and operations research, a genetic algorithm (GA) is a metaheuristic inspired by the process of natural selection that belongs to the larger class of evolutionary algorithms (EA). Genetic algorithms are commonly used to gene ...
, in computer science, a kind of search technique modeled on evolutionary biology
See also
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Genetic memory (disambiguation)
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