What is "monogenic"

Monogenic \Mon`o*gen"ic\, a.

1. (Biol.) Of or pertaining to monogenesis.

2. (Zo["o]l.) Producing only one kind of germs, or young; developing only in one way.

a. 1 of or relating to monogenesis or to monogenism 2 (context genetics English) regulated by a single gene 3 producing offspring of only one sex 4 (context mathematics of a function English) having a single derivative at a point n. (context mathematics English) A derivative of a monogenic function

adj. of or relating to an inheritable character that is controlled by a single pair of genes

Monogenic may refer to:

• Analytic signal#The monogenic signal, in the theory of analytic signals
• Genetic disorder#Single gene disorder (or monogenic disorder, disease, inheritance, or trait), a single gene disorder is the result of a single mutated gene
• Maturity onset diabetes of the young (MODY; also known as monogenic diabetes), any of several hereditary forms of diabetes caused by mutations in an autosomal dominant gene disrupting insulin production
• Monogenic field, in mathematics, an algebraic number field K
• Monogenic function, a function in algebra over a field
• Monogenic semigroup, in mathematics, a semigroup generated by a set containing only a single element
• Monogenic system, in classical mechanics, a physical system