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GENETICIST

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

A biologist who specializes in genetics

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("geneticist" is a kind of...):

biologist; life scientist ((biology) a scientist who studies living organisms)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "geneticist"):

cytogeneticist (a geneticist who specializes in the cellular components associated with heredity)

Instance hyponyms:

Cline; Martin Cline (American geneticist who succeeded in transferring a functioning gene from one mouse to another (born in 1934))

Haldane; J. B. S. Haldane; John Burdon Sanderson Haldane (Scottish geneticist (son of John Haldane) who contributed to the development of population genetics; a popularizer of science and a Marxist (1892-1964))

Lysenko; Trofim Denisovich Lysenko (Soviet geneticist whose adherence to Lamarck's theory of evolution was favored by Stalin (1898-1976))

Hermann Joseph Muller; Muller (United States geneticist who studied the effects of X-rays on genes (1890-1967))

Craig Ventner; J. Craig Ventner; Ventner (United States geneticist who published the complete base sequences for all the genes of a free-living organism, the influenza bacterium; later led team that developed a first draft of the entire human genome (born in 1946))

James Dewey Watson; James Watson; Watson (United States geneticist who (with Crick in 1953) helped discover the helical structure of DNA (born in 1928))

August Friedrich Leopold Weismann; Weismann (German biologist who was one of the founders of modern genetics; his theory of genetic transmission ruled out the possibility of transmitting acquired characteristics (1834-1914))

Ian Wilmut; Wilmut (English geneticist who succeeded in cloning a sheep from a cell from an adult ewe (born in 1944))

Derivation:

genetics (the branch of biology that studies heredity and variation in organisms)

Credits

 Context examples: 

A medical geneticist is a doctor who specializes in diagnosing and treating genetic disorders or conditions.

(Geneticist, NCI Dictionary)