genetical, a.
(dʒɪˈnɛtɪkəl)
[f. genetic + -al1.]
= genetic a. † Also, in early use = synthetic (cf. genesis 3).
| 1654 Whitlock Zootomia Pref. A viij b, I love books that make use of Sciences, not compile them into their Geneticall, or Analyticall Parcels. 1831 Carlyle Sart. Res. i. xi. (1858) 45 A complete picture and Genetical History of the Man and his spiritual Endeavour lies before you. 1841 Emerson Misc. Papers, Landor Wks. (Bohn) III. 311 These are not plants and animals, but the genetical atoms of which both are composed. 1875 Whitney Life Lang. xiii. 277 That classification aimed at being a strictly genetical one. 1910 Amer. Naturalist XLIV. 108 (title) Genetical studies on Œnothera. Notes on the behavior of certain hybrids of Œnothera in the first generation. 1922 Ibid. LVI. 59 Genetical and cytological proof was obtained that these intersexes in Drosophila possess two X-chromosomes and three sets of autosomes. 1925 Jrnl. Bot. LXIII. 360 A greater knowledge of modern genetical work would save taxonomists from falling into some common errors. 1930 R. A. Fisher (title) The genetical theory of natural selection. 1959 Listener 26 Nov. 920/2 Nucleic acids are the substances that embody genetical information. 1971 Nature 30 Apr. 552/3 The pathogen is now open to much more detailed genetical and physiological examination. |