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Definition: Geneticist |
GeneticistNoun1. A biologist who specializes in genetics. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "geneticist" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1985. (references) |
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Biology & Biotechnology | It is not known what produced this mutation but--believe it involved a single recessive factor. Source: European Union. (references) |
Occupations | Studies inheritance and variation of characteristics in forms of life: Performs experiments to determine laws, mechanisms, and environmental factors in origin, transmission, and development of inherited traits. Analyzes determinants responsible for specific inherited traits, such as color differences, size, and disease resistance to improve or to understand relationship of heredity to maturity, fertility, or other factors. Devises methods for altering or producing new traits, making use of chemicals, heat, light, or other means. May specialize in particular branch of genetics, such as molecular genetics or population genetics. May perform human genetic counseling or medical genetics. (references) |
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Crosswords: Geneticist |
| English words defined with "geneticist": Haldane, Hermann Joseph Muller ♦ J. B. S. Haldane, James Dewey Watson, James Watson, John Burdon Sanderson Haldane ♦ Lysenko ♦ Muller ♦ Trofim Denisovich Lysenko ♦ Watson. (references) |
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Screenplays | I'll never understand what possessed my mother to put her faith in God's hands, rather than her local geneticist. (Gattaca; writing credit: Andrew Niccol) | |
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 | Geneticist Jerry Miller (left) and technician Dale Rehder pollinate sunflowers to develop new inbred lines that produce oil in the mid-oleic range. P.Credit: USDA ARS News; photo by Russ Hanson.. |  | ARS geneticist Tom Rinderer (right foreground) and beekeeping cooperator Steve Bernard, along with ARS associates Tony Stelzer and Warren Kelley (background, L-R) of the Baton Rouge laboratory, inspect colonies of Russian and other honey bees. P.Credit: USDA ARS News; photo by Scott Bauer.. |
 | Differences between European and Africanized honey bees can be seen in this DNA sequencing gel being read by microbiologist Hachiro Shimanuki and geneticist Cristina Arias. P.Credit: USDA ARS News; photo by Scott Bauer.. |  | The Sarah van Fleet rose, developed by geneticist Walter van Fleet specifically for American gardens. P.Credit: USDA ARS News; photo by Peggy Greb.. |
 | In Salinas, California, geneticist Robert Lewellen (left) and technician Jose Orozco evaluate sugar beet breeding lines for disease resistance. P.Credit: USDA ARS News; photo by Scott Bauer.. |  | Small-fruit geneticist Stan Hokanson displays several elite wild strawberries collected by collaborators. The small, highly aromatic berries (left) are from plants collected in Alberta, Canada. The larger berries are from a type collected in Alaska that may prove to be cold hardy. P.Credit: USDA ARS News; photo by Scott Bauer.. |
 | ARS geneticist Lisa J. Rowland has collected leaf tissue samples from blueberry plants for DNA analysis and genome mapping. P.Credit: USDA ARS News; photo by Scott Bauer.. |  | Root-rotting fungi can weaken, stunt, or kill sugar beet plants. Here, geneticist Leonard Panella evaluates sugar beet plants for resistance to the fungal disease Rhizoctonia root rot. P.Credit: USDA ARS News; photo by Scott Bauer.. |
 | Geneticist Anson E. Thompson holds a vial of lesquerella oil processed and refined at the National Center for Agricultural Utilization Research in Peoria, Illinois. P.Credit: USDA ARS News; photo by Jack Dykinga.. | ||
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Health | Some people with Marfan syndrome are also treated by a geneticist. (references) | |
Furthermore, recent studies conducted by NICHD grantee Terry Hassold, a geneticist at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, OH, show that half the time, the extra chromosome comes from the father. (references) | ||
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| "Geneticist" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Geneticist" is used about 43 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 43 | 52,181 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
geneticist | 22 |
geneticist hulk | 5 |
geneticist pediatric | 3 |
geneticist salary | 3 |
geneticist medical | 3 |
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| Language | Translations for "geneticist"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | gjenetikor. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | إختصاصي بعلم الوراثة. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | генетик. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | genetik. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | genetiker (genetician), arvelighedsforsker (genetician). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | geneticus (genetician). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | geneetikko (genetician), perinnöllisyystieteilijä (genetician), perinnöllisyydentutkija (genetician). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | généticien (genetician). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | genetiker (genetician, geneticists). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | γενεσιολόγοσ, γενετιστής (genetician), ο ειδικός εις την γενετικήν (genetician). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | חוקר "תורש", ' טיקון. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | genetikus. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | genetista (genetician). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 학자. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | eneticistgay geneticista (genetician). (various references) генетик. (various references) genetičar. (various references) genetista (genetician). (various references) genetiker (genetician). (various references) genetikçi. (various references) генетик. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "geneticist": geneticists. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "geneticist": cytogeneticist, immunogeneticist. (additional references) | |
Words containing "geneticist": cytogeneticists, immunogeneticists. (additional references) | |
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"Geneticist" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: memeticist. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "geneticist" (pronounced june"tusust) |
| 5 | -u s u s t | classicist, empiricist, ethicist, lyricist, pharmacist, polemicist, supremacist. |
| 4 | -s u s t | choicest, closest, densest, exorcist, fiercest, racist. |
| 3 | -u s t | ablest, abolitionist, abortionist, absolutist, accompanist, activist, agonist, agriculturalist, agronomist, alarmist, alchemist, allergist, amethyst, amorist, analyst, anarchist, anatomist, anesthesiologist, anesthetist, angriest, animist, antagonist, anthropologist, anticommunist, apologist, apprenticed, aquarist, archaeologist, archivist, arsonist, artist, atheist, August, ballast, balloonist, barest, behaviorist, biased, bicyclist, biggest, biochemist, biologist, bitterest, blackest, bleakest, bloodiest, bluest, bluntest, boldest, botanist, bravest, breakfast, briefest, brightest, broadest, busiest, buttressed, calloused, canoeist, canvassed, capitalist, cardiologist, caricaturist, cartoonist, catalyst, cellist, chauvinist, cheapest, clarinetist, cleanest, coldest, colonialist, colonist, columnist, communist, conservationist, contortionist, conversationalist, coolest, cornettist, craziest, creamiest, criminologist, cruelest, cultist, cyclist, darkest, deadliest, dearest, deepest, deforest, deist, dentist, dermatologist, determinist, direst, dirtiest, dishonest, disinterest, driest, druggist, dullest, dumbest, earliest, earnest, easiest, ecologist, economist, editorialist, eldest, elitist, embarrassed, encompassed, encyclopedist, endocrinologist, entomologist, environmentalist, epidemiologist, ethnomusicologist, exhibitionist, expressionist, extremist, faintest, fairest, fanciest, farthest, fascist, fastest, fattest, federalist, feminist, fetishist, fewest, finalist, finest, firmest, fittest, flimsiest, florist, focused, focussed, foggiest, fondest, forest, formalist, freest, freshest, friendliest, fullest, fundamentalist, funnest, funniest, furthest, generalist, gentlest, geologist, gerontologist, goldest, grandest, gravest, grayest, greatest, greediest, greenest, grimaced, grimmest, grooviest, guitarist, gymnast, gynecologist, happiest, hardest, harnessed, harshest, harvest, healthiest, heaviest, heftiest, herbalist, highest, hippest, hobbyist, holiest, honest, hottest, hugest, humblest, humorist, hygienist, idealist, ideologist, illusionist, immunologist, imperialist, impressionist, individualist, industrialist, institutionalist, instrumentalist, interest, internationalist, internist, interventionist, isolationist, jaundiced, journalist, juiciest, junkiest, keenest, kindest, kremlinologist, largest, latest, laziest, leanest, leftist, librettist, lightest, likeliest, linguist, littlest, liveliest, lobbyist, locust, longest, loudest, lowest, loyalist, luckiest, machinist, manicurist, mannerist, masochist, materialist, meanest, medalist, mercantilist, merest, meteorologist, methodist, microbiologist, mightiest, mildest, mineralogist, misogynist, modernist, modest, monopolist, motorcyclist, motorist, musicologist, narrowest, nastiest, nationalist, naturalist, nearest, neatest, neediest, neurologist, neuroscientist, neutralist, newest, noblest, noisiest, noncommunist, nonconformist, noninterest, noticed, novelist, nutritionist, oboist, obstructionist, oddest, oldest, oncologist, ophthalmologist, opportunist, organist, orthodontist, orthopedist, pacifist, paleontologist, palest, panelist, pathologist, pessimist, philanthropist, photojournalist, physiologist, pianist, poorest, populist, prefaced, prejudiced, premised, preservationist, prettiest, priciest, promised, propagandist, protagonist, protectionist, proudest, psychiatrist, psychoanalyst, psychologist, psychotherapist, purchased, purest, quickest, quietest, quietist, radiologist, rainforest, rainiest, rapist, rarest, receptionist, reddest, refocused, reforest, remotest, repurchased, reservationist, reservist, resurfaced, revolutionist, rheumatologist, richest, rightist, riskiest, ritziest, roughest, rudest, saddest, sadist, safest, satirist, savviest, scariest, scientist, secessionist, secularist, segregationist, seismologist, semifinalist, separatist, serologist, serviced, severest, sexiest, shakiest, sharpest, shortest, showiest, shrewdest, sickest, silliest, simplest, skimpiest, skinniest, sleekest, slickest, slightest, slimmest, sloppiest, slowest, smallest, smartest, smoggiest, smoothest, socialist, sociologist, softest, soonest, soundest, specialist, spiritualist, stablest, staunchest, steepest, sternest, stickiest, stiffest, stormiest, strangest, strategist, strictest, strongest, stupidest, surest, surfaced, survivalist, sweetest, swiftest, tallest, tannest, technologist, televangelist, tempest, terraced, theorist, therapist, thickest, thinnest, thorniest, tightest, tiniest, toniest, toughest, tourist, toxicologist, traditionalist, trendiest, trickiest, truest, ugliest, ultranationalist, unbiased, unfocused, unionist, unkindest, unnoticed, urologist, violinist, violist, virologist, vocalist, warmest, weakest, wealthiest, weirdest, wettest, whitest, widest, wildest, wisest, witnessed, worthiest, yellowest, youngest, zaniest, zoologist. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-e-e-g-i-i-n-s-t-t" | |
-2 letters: entities, genetics, niceties. | |
-3 letters: entices, genetic, ignites, incites, setting, sienite, sitting, testing, tiniest. | |
-4 letters: cities, citing, entice, genets, genies, gentes, gestic, gittin, iciest, icings, ignite, incest, incise, incite, ingest, insect, nicest, nieces, seeing, seniti, signee, signet, siting, sitten, teeing, tenets, tentie, tieing, tincts, tinges. | |
-5 letters: cense, cents, cesti, cetes, cines, cites, egest, geest, genes, genet, genic, genie, genii, gents, geste, icing, inset, intis, neist, netts, niece, nisei, nites, scene, scent, segni, seine, sengi, sente, senti, siege, since, singe, stein, sting, stint, teens, tenet, tenge, tense, tents, tinct, tines, tinge, tings, tints, titis. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-e-e-g-i-i-n-s-t-t" | |
+1 letter: geneticists. | |
+2 letters: geoscientist, histogenetic, intersecting. | |
+3 letters: geoscientists, necessitating. | |
+4 letters: aestheticizing, antigenicities, cytogeneticist, mitogenicities, mutagenicities, telangiectasia, telangiectasis, toxigenicities. | |
+5 letters: cytogeneticists, egocentricities, nonintersecting, pathogenicities, telangiectasias. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)47 65 6E 65 74 69 63 69 73 74 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)--. . -. . - .. -.-. .. ... - |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000111 01100101 01101110 01100101 01110100 01101001 01100011 01101001 01110011 01110100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)G e n e t i c i s t |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0047 0065 006E 0065 0074 0069 0063 0069 0073 0074 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)41718071867569758586 |
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