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  • noun Plural form of geneticist.

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Examples

  • This calculation, often cited publicly by world-renowned geneticists, is that all humans are more than 99.9 percent genetically identical.

    Neil Risch on race Steve Sailer 2005

  • The geneticists were the worker bees, and Kenneth had come to regard the library, these last few days, as a giant pot of honey.

    Asimov's Science Fiction 2005

  • A key selection tool in the Genesus genetic program by our geneticists is the Sire Line Index (SLI).

    ThePigSite - Global Pig Industry News Feeds 2010

  • Of course we love to make our profits, sure, but we are also eugenicists, also known as geneticists in today's terminology.

    DaddyBlogger.com 2009

  • Contrary to what Shattuck assumes, the Pléiade edition of Proust is not a genetic edition — it has been under attack from the so-called geneticists as well — but a fairly traditional critical edition, comparable to editions that have been produced since the establishment of philology early in the nineteenth century: it furnishes notes and variants, and also provides — in smaller face — earlier drafts that cannot be appended as variants because they differ too much from the final text.

    'The Threat to Proust': An Exchange Compagnon, Antoine 1999

  • Evolutionary theory now figures prominently in the thinking and writings of molecular geneticists and structural biologists.

    A Disclaimer for Behe? 2009

  • But many psychologists as well as geneticists doubt this explanation, not simply because it is politically and socially distasteful but rather because it represents bad science.

    Red Flags or Red Herrings? Susan Engel 2011

  • Joe and the DMS go up against two competing groups of geneticists.

    The Joe Ledger Series by New York Times Bestselling Author Jonathan Maberry 2010

  • These days there are not enough "neo-Darwinists" to have a debate with, at least none that I'm aware of who are professional geneticists, most of whom are aware that Darwin's theories have been replaced by more modern theories of evolution.

    Behe and Gene discuss the Evolution of the Flagellum 2009

  • Margulis (and the overwhelming majority of geneticists today) believe that a wider range of naturalistic processes must be invoked in order to explain variation.

    Behe and Gene discuss the Evolution of the Flagellum 2009

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