Genetic \Ge*net"ic\ (j[-e]*n[e^]t"[i^]k), a.
   1. Same as Genetical.
      [1913 Webster]

   2. Of or pertaining to genes or genetics; as, the genetic
      code.
      [PJC]

	

	genetic
    adj 1: occurring among members of a family usually by heredity;
           "an inherited disease"; "familial traits"; "genetically
           transmitted features" [syn: familial, genetic,
           hereditary, inherited, transmitted,
           transmissible]
    2: of or relating to or produced by or being a gene; "genic
       combinations"; "genetic code" [syn: genic, genetic,
       genetical]
    3: pertaining to or referring to origin; "genetic history
       reconstructs the origins of a literary work"
    4: of or relating to the science of genetics; "genetic research"
       [syn: genetic, genetical]

	

	108 Moby Thesaurus words for "genetic":
   abiogenetic, aboriginal, advancing, atavistic, basal, basic,
   biogenetic, blastogenetic, bodily, born, bradytelic, central,
   clannish, coeval, congenital, connatal, connate, connatural,
   constitutional, crucial, developing, elemental, elementary,
   embryonic, epigenetic, ethnic, eumerogenetic, evolutional,
   evolutionist, evolutionistic, evolving, family, fundamental,
   gametic, generative, genial, genic, genital, genitive, gentile,
   gentilic, germinal, hereditary, heterogenetic, histogenetic,
   homogenetic, horotelic, in embryo, in ovo, in the blood, inborn,
   inbred, incarnate, indigenous, inherited, innate, instinctive,
   instinctual, isogenetic, lineal, matroclinous, maturational,
   maturative, maturing, merogenetic, metagenetic, monogenetic,
   national, native, native to, natural, natural to, ontogenetic,
   organic, original, orthogenetic, pangenetic, parthenogenetic,
   patrimonial, patroclinous, phyletic, phylogenetic, physical,
   physiogenetic, phytogenetic, plasmatic, plasmic, pregnant, primal,
   primary, primeval, primitive, primordial, pristine, progressing,
   protogenic, protoplasmic, racial, radical, rudimentary, seminal,
   sporogenous, tachytelic, temperamental, totemic, tribal, unfolding,
   xenogenetic