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The study of cell biology and biomedical genetics. It includes a clinical discipline that concentrates its efforts on detecting, diagnosing, preventing, and treating genetic diseases and disorders: genetic engineering.  

The potential level of functioning ability as determined by genetic makeup.  

Condition in a group of inter-breeding organisms in which particular gene frequencies remain constant through succeeding generations.  

Piaget’s name for the branch of cognitive science that concerns itself with the ontogenetic origins and development of the human ability to know and to reason.  

Genetic defect.  

Genetic defects: genetic health. A disorder or disease caused by a damaging gene variation that may be inherited. An abnormal trait or disease that results from mistakes in an individual’s “genetic blueprint,” such as a problem in the DNA coding of the genes or errors in duplication of the chromosomes. The defective gene may have…

Genetic defect. Diseases due to mutations in the gene codes for specific proteins. Any disorder or abnormality that results from inherited factors (genes) (e.g., Tay-Sachs disease, sickle-cell anemia) (also called inherited disorder). A disease which is caused by a change in the individual’s genetic material. The disease may be one which continues from generation to…

Defects and diseases caused by heredity or those classed as congenital may result from defective genes, chromosomes, prenatal environment, or a combination of these factors, called multifactorial inheritance: genetic disease.  

Damage to genes such as that produced by exposure to radioactivity: genetic defects.  

A person trained in genetic science and who counsels others in the probability of their passing genetic traits to the next generation. An individual who does genetic counseling. The individual may be a specially trained genetic counselor, physician, nurse, clinical geneticist, social worker, or other genetic specialist. A health care professional who specializes in the…