What's the difference between genetic and heredity?

Genetic


Definition:

  • (a.) Same as Genetical.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) We were able to detect genetic recombination between vaccine strains of PRV following in vitro or in vivo coinoculation of 2 strains of PRV.
  • (2) A study of factors influencing genetic counseling attendance rate has been conducted in the Bouches-du-Rhône area, in the south of France.
  • (3) The combined analysis of pathogenesis and genetics associated with the salmonella virulence plasmids may identify new systems of bacterial virulence and the genetic basis for this virulence.
  • (4) This suggests that the latter group does not possess the genetic equipment (Ir genes) to recognize the antigenic determinants and to synthesize the corresponding antibodies.
  • (5) Pedigree studies have suggested that there may be an inherited predisposition to many apparently nonfamilial colorectal cancers and a genetic model of tumorigenesis in common colorectal cancer has been proposed that includes the activation of dominantly acting oncogenes and the inactivation of growth suppressor genes.
  • (6) In neither case has a significant elevation in inherited genetic effects or cancer been detected in the offspring of exposed individuals.
  • (7) The dilemmas faced by the genetic counsellor are discussed in this variable autosomal dominant condition.
  • (8) Extensive sequence homologies and other genetic features are shared with the related oncogenic virus, human papillomavirus type 16, especially in the major reading frames.
  • (9) In this way they offer the doctor the chance of preventing genetic handicaps that cannot be obtained by natural reproduction, and that therefore should be used.
  • (10) The relation between genetic counseling and the procreation sphere among the studied families is presented.
  • (11) Genetic regulation of the ilvGMEDA cluster involves attenuation, internal promoters, internal Rho-dependent termination sites, a site of polarity in the ilvG pseudogene of the wild-type organism, and autoregulation by the ilvA gene product, the biosynthetic L-threonine deaminase.
  • (12) Genetical analysis revealed that resistance to trimethoprim resulted from forward mutations at separate loci rather than back mutations of rad 6 or rad 18 alleles.
  • (13) The incomplete penetrance of the neoplastic phenotype and the monoclonality of lymphoid tumors suggest that tumor formation in v-fps mice requires genetic or epigenetic events in addition to expression of the P130gag-fps protein-tyrosine kinase.
  • (14) This might suggest a genetic difference between the rat strains in the regulation of the enzyme activity.
  • (15) Analysis of genetic markers associated with the deleted haplotypes pointed to the independent origin of similar deletions and the involvement of intergenic sequences in the mispairing-recombination process.
  • (16) In this sense, there is evidence that in genetically susceptible individuals, environmental stresses can influence the long-term level of arterial pressure via the central and peripheral neural autonomic pathways.
  • (17) Using the asynchronously replicating (hence genetically inactive) X chromosome as a marker, we obtained evidence showing that most or all of these tumors were monoclonal in origin.
  • (18) Both hypodontia and hyperdontia are found in a number of well-defined genetic syndromes and in most instances are common characteristics of the disease.
  • (19) Precipitating antibodies were found in both lines; they first appeared 7 days after inoculation in P-line birds and 14 days after inoculation in N-line birds, but thereafter there was no difference between the two genetic lines.
  • (20) The recent discovery of nuclear retinoic acid receptors provides a basis for understanding how retinoic acid acts at the genetic level.

Heredity


Definition:

  • (n.) Hereditary transmission of the physical and psychical qualities of parents to their offspring; the biological law by which living beings tend to repeat their characteristics in their descendants. See Pangenesis.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Nine factors have been isolated whose varying combinations were most contributory to the risk of the development of CS in the studied population: cardiac diseases, transient disorder of the cerebral circulation, arterial hypertension, atherosclerosis, aggravated heredity for cardiovascular diseases, intermittent claudication, diabetes mellitus, systematic alcohol abuse, and hypodynamia.
  • (2) Results of crosses were consistent with the hypothesis that a single, incompletely dominant gene was acting, but further study of both the anatomy and heredity of the defect was deemed necessary.
  • (3) In this family in the heredity seems to be of the recessive type.
  • (4) However, the incidence of heart disease and presence of risk factors are also related to heredity, geography, and socioeconomic conditions, and to diet, exercise, and emotional stress.
  • (5) Theories about aetiology relate to minimal brain damage, heredity, temperament variations, maturational lag, dysfunction of the reticular activating system, food sensitivity, and learned response to unorganized environment.
  • (6) Type 2 mostly shows a median form, is not frequently combined with cleft feet, heredity occurs in one third of the cases.
  • (7) The family-history gave no clue as far as the heredity mode is concerned.
  • (8) New developments are described in the areas of epidemiology, heredity and environmental influences, neuroreceptors and neurotransmitters, AIDS, diagnostic classification, psychopathology, psychodynamics, new psychotherapeutic approaches, the efficacy of psychotherapy, and pharmacologic treatment.
  • (9) In recent years research on senile dementia of the Alzheimer type (SDAT) has made progress within the field of pathology and to a certain extent in that of heredity.
  • (10) However, a bimodal distribution in the frequency of the days of vaginal opening is observed within a given strain, which is less related to heredity than to the timing and type of experiment.
  • (11) If the high myopias and cone dysfunction are considered to be parts of the same syndrome, the heredity could be x-chromosomal recessive or autosomal recessive.
  • (12) In the other families, dominant heredity was not excluded if the hypothesis, supported by many facts, of incomplete penetrance is accepted.
  • (13) Genetic Chemistry: The Molecular Basis of Heredity.
  • (14) About one-third to one-half of the blood pressure variance is explained by heredity with the remainder due to environmental or unknown factors.
  • (15) The monitoring of children with aggravated heredity for coronary heart disease, particularly those with attendant dyslipoproteinemia as a specific high-risk group, is proposed.
  • (16) To examine the possible differential influence of heredity and environmental factors on menarcheal age, 350 adolescent dancers and non-dancers and their mothers were surveyed.
  • (17) The preliminary results in these 6 surgically implanted patients with heredity degenerative cerebellar disease show 2 with marked improvement, 3 with moderate improvement and 1 with improvement for 2 months followed by mild deterioration but still better than presurgery.
  • (18) The heredity rate among the patients treated by the authors (527 cases) was 14.4 percent.
  • (19) In spontaneous cases the proof of heredity might be discovered by an ophthalmological examination or eye movement recordings of other family members.
  • (20) Pathogenesis, as a category of general pathology, can be studied most efficiently by the pathologist when investigating the responsiveness (cell defence systems, neuro-endocrine and local cell regulation, heredity).