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genetically

genetically \ge*net"ic*al*ly\, adv. In a genetical manner.

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genetically

adv. 1 In terms of origin or development. 2 In a manner relating to genes or genetics. 3 (lb en linguistics) By being members of the same linguistic family.

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genetically

adv. by genetic mechanisms; "genetically passed down talents"

Usage examples of "genetically".

A few of the unconscious aliens were obviously genetically unaltered, since they had entered the transitional or lepi-dodermoid phase of their allomorphic cycle.

Caroline Lampert, all of the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the article reportedly concerns a radical new approach to attacking carcinomas through genetically engineered retroviruses.

It will allow the use of ectogenetic chambers from the time of conception and a bit more research on genetically inherited diseases and not much else.

AFI were testing mycoherbicides genetically engineered to be plant specific on Cannabis saliva on the coast, and on Erythroxylon coca in the mountains.

At thirty-one he won the Nobel Prize in medicine for his work on genetically modified excitotoxins in neural mitochondria.

This was a classic visionary Imagist drama from the previous century, set in a mannered future in which a genetically altered posthuman society was confronted by the return of violent human primitives from a forgotten space colony, a comedy of manners laced with acid and appalling violence.

The Neotenic Infantry: genetically engineered, cloned, psychologically programmed killing machines, packaged to look like children.

For a while, the insertion of human genes into other animals was banned by most industrialized nations, but the simplicity of the process and the crying need of tattered third world countries for hard currency inevitably resulted in a huge clandestine trade in genetically enhanced pets and altered farm animals.

Cora showed a slight discoloration from central cyanosis due to polycythemia and reduced oxygen saturation, despite the genetically modified hemoglobin-Y and the enhanced lung capacity.

He had never believed the die-hard psychobiologists who had insisted that the aesthetic judgments which underlay sexual attractiveness were genetically hardwired so that the idea of beauty and the appearance of youth were inextricably tied together.

The fems, of which Seria was one, were genetically engineered to create sexual harmony through polyamorous relationships.

Ogier resemble humans in general build and dress, but are a genetically separate species with long tufted ears and broad, vaguely snoutlike noses.

Waited through commercials for disposable vacuum cleaners, ziplock garbage bags, genetically engineered rubberbands that would never break, the Dolla Dare show.

Worst of all was the Indian experiment in cultivating a genetically altered form of zooplankton which produced tiny, almost microscopic pockets of hydrogen that allowed for the organism to become airborne.

Mating with a male is still needed, to spark conception, but the offspring are clones, genetically identical to their mother.