Genetic
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Genetic may refer to:
- GeneticsGeneticsGenetics , a discipline of biology, is the science of genes, heredity, and variation in living organisms....
, in biology, the science of genes, heredity, and the variation of organisms- Genetic, used as an adjective, refers to heredityHeredityHeredity is the passing of traits to offspring . This is the process by which an offspring cell or organism acquires or becomes predisposed to the characteristics of its parent cell or organism. Through heredity, variations exhibited by individuals can accumulate and cause some species to evolve...
of traits - GeneGeneA gene is a molecular unit of heredity of a living organism. It is a name given to some stretches of DNA and RNA that code for a type of protein or for an RNA chain that has a function in the organism. Living beings depend on genes, as they specify all proteins and functional RNA chains...
, a unit of heredity in the genome of an organism
- Genetic, used as an adjective, refers to heredity
- Genetic (linguistics), in linguistics, a relationship between two languages with a common ancestor language
- Genetic algorithmGenetic algorithmA genetic algorithm is a search heuristic that mimics the process of natural evolution. This heuristic is routinely used to generate useful solutions to optimization and search problems...
, in computer science, a kind of search technique modeled on evolutionary biology