genic

Pertaining to heredity

Genic means relating to or caused by genes.

The term appears in scientific contexts discussing genetic factors: genic variation, genic effects on traits.

It also forms the suffix -genic, meaning producing or caused by: photogenic (producing good photographs), carcinogenic (cancer-causing), allergenic (allergy-producing).

genetics

allele

Gene variant at one locus

phenotype · genomics · hereditary · heritable · inheritance · mutation · variation · polymorphism · transcription · replication

heredity

inheritance

Property received from ancestors

familial · congenital · inborn · inherited · heritability · transmission · descendants · progeny · bloodline · pedigree

suffix

telegenic

Appealing on camera

pyrogenic · estrogenic · immunogenic · iatrogenic · thermogenic · anthropogenic · orogenic

hybrid

crossbreed

Mixed-lineage organism

fusion · splicing · grafting · hybrid · recombinant · GMO · bioengineered · backcross

Opposites
causation source

genicenvironmental

Of natural surroundings

acquired · nongenetic · epigenetic · exogenous · experiential

biological origin

genicnonhereditary

Not genetically transmitted

noninherited · cytoplasmic · mitochondrial

Phrases
Family

generation, generate, genes, genetic, genesis, gene, genetics, genome, photogenic

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