genetics 1905

University of Cambridge

Lines of Thought: From Darwin to DNA

Cambridge University Library is celebrating its 600th anniversary with an exhibition of priceless treasures communicating 4,000 years of human thought. To celebrate, we have made six films on the six distinct themes featured in Lines of Thought.

Darwin’s stuffed pigeons, the letter which first coined the term ‘genetics’ and a paper by Crick and Watson which helped decode DNA all feature in the fourth film of our series.

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genetics 

Pronunciation: /dʒəˈnɛtɪks/ 

PLURAL NOUN

[TREATED AS SINGULAR]

1The study of heredity and the variation of inherited characteristics.

Example sentences

1.1[TREATED AS SINGULAR OR PLURAL] The genetic properties or features of an organism, characteristic, etc.the effects of family genetics on the choice of career

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