adjective
- Occurring among members of a family usually by heredity.
- usage: "an inherited disease"; "familial traits"; "genetically transmitted features"
- synonyms: familial, hereditary, inherited, transmitted, transmissible
- Of or relating to or produced by or being a gene.
- usage: "genic combinations"; "genetic code"
- Pertaining to or referring to origin.
- usage: "genetic history reconstructs the origins of a literary work"
- Of or relating to the science of genetics.
- usage: "genetic research"
- synonyms: genetical
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