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/dʒɪˈnetɪk/
Relating to genes — the parts inside living things that are passed from parents to children and decide how they grow.
基因的/遺傳的
核心畫面
Picture a set of instructions handed down from parent to child, written inside every living cell. Genetic points at that inherited instruction sheet — anything to do with what was written in before you were born, rather than what happened to you afterwards.
可以想成:一份從父母傳下來、寫在每個細胞裡的說明書。genetic 就是指著這份說明書講話——凡是跟「出生前就已經寫…更多收起
可以想成:一份從父母傳下來、寫在每個細胞裡的說明書。genetic 就是指著這份說明書講話——凡是跟「出生前就已經寫好的東西」有關的,都用這個字;跟後天發生的事情有關的,就不是它的範圍。所以講疾病、講長相、講科學研究時,用不用 genetic 的分界線就在「這是帶來的,還是後來造成的」。原始詞典資料5 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法,原文照列,我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的;有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
geneticadj/d͡ʒəˈnɛt.ɪk/
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biologygeneticsmedicineRelating to genetics or genes.
- Plant breeding is always a numbers game.[…]The wild species we use are rich in genetic variation, and individual plants are highly heterozygous and do not breed true. In addition, we are looking for rare alleles, so the more plants we try, the better.
- “DNA from hunter-gatherers is present at higher levels in Northeastern Europe, which means the region has an elevated genetic risk of developing Alzheimer’s disease,” Barrie said.
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Caused by genes.
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Of or relating to origin (genesis).
- All evidence tends to this conclusion, that the sun is the prime genetic agent of earthquakes and of every other pluto-dynamic impulse which acts against the crust of the planet, and breaks or elevates any of its parts.
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human-scienceslinguisticssciencesBased on shared membership in a linguistic family.
- Chinese has borrowed several words from English, but it does not have a genetic relationship to English.
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lifestylereligiontheologyBased on a shared membership in a religious family.
- Guy Stroumsa (2011) proposes the use of the alternative term Abrahamic religions, emphasizing the genetic relationship between Judaism, Christianity, and Islam and their branches, for which the idea of monotheism is not always central.
資料來源:英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary(CC BY-SA 4.0)。 原文照列,未經改寫。