Wiktionary
n. A field of biology which studies the structure and function of genes at a molecular level.
WordNet
n. the branch of genetics concerned with the structure and activity of genetic material at the molecular level
Wikipedia
Molecular genetics is the field of biology and genetics that studies the structure and function of genes at a molecular level. The study of chromosomes and gene expression of an organism can give insight into heredity, genetic variation, and mutations. This is useful in the study of developmental biology and in understanding and treating genetic diseases.
Usage examples of "molecular genetics".
Both of us were younger and cockier, confident in the bounty of molecular genetics, ready to use science to confound nature.
Research in molecular genetics had become a vast, multibillion .
Research in molecular genetics had become a vast, multibillion dollar commercial undertaking, and its origins can be traced not to 1953 but to April 1976.
Research in molecular genetics had become a vast, multibillion-dollar commercial undertaking, and its origins can be traced not to 1953 but to April 1976.
Just such a servant molecule, rejoicing in the name HSP90, is turning molecular genetics upside down even as we write.
Landers had made his money in dry computers, not biotech, but he'd gone on to buy several R&D-intensive molecular genetics corporations to help him achieve his personal transformation.
Its ideas have proved so suggestive that they have been adapted to such fields as psychology, linguistics, molecular genetics, history, statistics, and neurophysiology.
Certainly no more than five, because by six years of age she had already committed to memory the fundamentals of microbiology, enzymology, and molecular genetics.