genetic

Etymology

Coined from genesis, similarly to antithesis, antithetic. Ultimately from Ancient Greek γίγνομαι (gígnomai, “I come into being”). Surface analysis, gene + -tic or genesis + -etic.

adj

1. (genetics) Relating to genetics or genes.
   Plant breeding is always a numbers game.[…]The wild species we use are rich in genetic variation, and individual plants are highly heterozygous and do not breed true. In addition, we are looking for rare alleles, so the more plants we try, the better. 2013 May-June, David Van Tassel, Lee DeHaan, “Wild Plants to the Rescue”, in American Scientist, volume 101, number 3
2. Caused by genes.
3. Of or relating to origin (genesis).
   All evidence tends to this conclusion, that the sun is the prime genetic agent of earthquakes and of every other pluto-dynamic impulse which acts against the crust of the planet, and breaks or elevates any of its parts. 1858, Year-Book Of Facts In Science And Art For 1858
4. (linguistics) Based on shared membership in a linguistic family.
   Chinese has borrowed several words from English, but it does not have a genetic relationship to English.
5. (theology) Based on a shared membership in a religious family.
   Guy Stroumsa (2011) proposes the use of the alternative term Abrahamic religions, emphasizing the genetic relationship between Judaism, Christianity, and Islam and their branches, for which the idea of monotheism is not always central. 2016-09-15, Koji Yamashiro, edited by Yochai Ataria, David Gurevitz, Haviva Pedaya, and Yuval Neria, Trauma and Monotheism: Sugmund Freud’s Moses and Monotheism and the Possibility of Writing a Traumatic History of Religion, Springer International Publishing Switzerland, →DOI, page 251