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Eugenics is the science of reproducing better humans by applying the established laws of genetics or heredity.

It sprang from genetics and bears the mark of an implicit Darwinian mechanism.

They also opened new horizons for hypotheses in astronomy, genetics, anthropology.

If, then, progress was to be made in genetics, work of a different kind was required.

But a better definition, based on the results of genetics, looks at it as a mechanism, not as an external appearance.

British Dictionary definitions for genetics Expand

(functioning as sing) the branch of biology concerned with the study of heredity and variation in organisms

the genetic features and constitution of a single organism, species, or group

Word Origin and History for genetics Expand

1872, "laws of origination;" see genetic + -ics. A coinage of English biologist William Bateson (1861-1926). Meaning "study of heredity" is from 1891.

genetics in Medicine Expand

genetics genetics (j-nt'ks) n. The branch of biology that deals with heredity, especially the mechanisms of hereditary transmission and the variation of inherited traits among similar or related organisms.

genetics in Science Expand

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