GENETICIST

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does geneticist mean? 

• GENETICIST (noun)
  The noun GENETICIST has 1 sense:

1. a biologist who specializes in genetics

  Familiarity information: GENETICIST used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• GENETICIST (noun)

Sense 1

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)

 Context examples 

Red spinach will give processors another choice, said ARS research geneticist Beiquan Mou, who developed the new variety.

(World's First True Red Spinach Variety Released, U.S. Department of Agriculture)

A common, gram negative gut bacterium that has been studied intensively by geneticists because of its small genome size, normal lack of pathogenicity, and ease of growth in the laboratory.

(Escherichia coli, NCI Thesaurus)

Zhiyong Xi, molecular geneticist at MSU and lead researcher of the team, infected millions of factory-reared male mosquitoes with Wolbachia, a type of bacteria found in insect guts.

(Mosquitos rendered infertile by biological engineering, SciDev.Net)

Charles Wondji, a mosquito geneticist at the School of Tropical Medicine in Liverpool, England, notes that resistance to pyrethroid insecticides occurred rapidly, in about eight years.

(Malaria-carrying Mosquitoes Becoming Resistant to Bed Nets in Southern Africa, VOA)

Medical geneticists also counsel individuals and families at risk for certain genetic disorders or cancers.

(Geneticist, NCI Dictionary)

Established in 1989 by a collection of the world's leading human geneticists, the primary ethos of the Human Genome Organisation is to promote and sustain international collaboration in the field of human genetics.

(Human Genome Organisation, NCI Thesaurus)

Chocolate-producing cacao trees that are resistant to a major pathogen were identified by an international team of plant geneticists.

(New way to identify disease-resistant genes in chocolate-producing trees, National Science Foundation)

Researchers with the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI), part of the National Institutes of Health, have collaborated with physicians and medical geneticists around the world to create the Atlas of Human Malformation Syndromes in Diverse Populations.

(NIH creates Atlas of Human Malformation Syndromes in Diverse Populations, NIH)

The concept of the Center was to have a facility whereby individuals (geneticists, cell biologists, and laboratory-based clinicians) could assemble in an arena to review technologies that are mature enough to span both science and clinics.

(Advanced Technology Center, NCI Thesaurus)

Gustavo Alencastro Cruzeiro, a geneticist at the University of São Paulo’s Ribeirão Preto Medical School and lead developer of the method, said it was faster and cheaper than similar techniques used in developed countries.

(New method to classify brain tumour in children, SciDev.Net)