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/dʒəˈnetɪks/
the science that studies how the qualities of living things — people, animals, or plants — are passed from parents to their young through genes.
遺傳學
核心畫面
You can picture a set of instructions inside every living thing — instructions that get handed down from parent to child, deciding eye colour, leaf shape, or which illnesses run in a family. Genetics is the field of study that reads those instructions and works out the rules by which they travel.
可以想成：每個生物體內都帶著一份「說明書」，決定眼睛的顏色、葉子的形狀、哪些疾病會在家族裡反覆出現；而這份說明書會從…更多收起
可以想成：每個生物體內都帶著一份「說明書」，決定眼睛的顏色、葉子的形狀、哪些疾病會在家族裡反覆出現；而這份說明書會從父母傳到子女手上。genetics 就是專門研究這份說明書怎麼寫、怎麼傳下去的那門學問。注意它指的是「研究」本身，不是那些基因——基因是 genes，研究基因的科學才是 genetics。原始詞典資料2 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。
geneticsnoun/dʒəˈnɛt.ɪks/
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biologynatural-sciencesThe branch of biology that deals with the transmission and variation of inherited characteristics, in particular chromosomes and DNA.
- If we want to raise mangels that will not run to seed, or to breed a cow that will give more milk in less time, or milk with more butter and less water, we can turn to Genetics with every hope that something can be done in these laudable directions.
- Genetics has shown that people are different, and these differences cluster according to geography and culture, but never in a way that aligns with the traditional concepts of human races.
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biologynatural-sciencesThe genetic makeup of a specific individual or species.
- As a result of your father’s, mother’s, and their parents genetics, you are born with a genetic structure that is dealt to you at conception. […] Our ancestry determines our genetics.
- This amazing occurrence made my head go bong to say the least; it was obvious that Elizabeth had not been “schizophrenic” because of her genetics, nor because of stress, nor malnutrition, nor hypoglycemia, nor because of any of the causes of mental illness that I had learned and rectify, but because of food allergies
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。