Definitions
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- adjective Of, relating to, produced by, or being genes or a gene.
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- adjective of, relating to, produced by, or being a
gene
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- adjective of or relating to or produced by or being a gene
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Examples
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It's gotta be carcinogenic, hallucinogenic, and every kind of "genic" you can think of. "
grouse Diary Entry grouse 2003
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CBS started with wanting media-genic Duke in prime time.
CBS executive Mike Aresco is behind the tournament times 2010
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Referring to a Texas Monthly article that described him as having ears that are one size too big for his head, White said, "Maybe I'm not the most media-genic candidate, but right now I think people want folks who are confident, shoot straight, don't engage in cronyism and get things done."
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TV sports storm trackers rarely see this kind of harmonic convergence: A pothole stopping traffic in America's most media-genic fast lane, a basketball game played before a bigger live audience than any Super Bowl has ever had even as Winter Olympics action originates from a viewer-friendly time zone.
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One, it's not a particularly "media-genic" disease.
Rob Densen: Lung Cancer Kills, So Does Indifference Rob Densen 2010
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One, it's not a particularly "media-genic" disease.
Rob Densen: Lung Cancer Kills, So Does Indifference Rob Densen 2010
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NBC, understandably, stayed glued Sunday to Woods, whose gimpy knee made him even more irresistibly media-genic than usual, while noting Mediate's progress.
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You're right, mutations can occur in any of the genic regions (promoter, operator, leading strands and protein coding regions), but it's the nature and the effect of these mutations that are of significance.
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Up to this contact with Price, and indeed for some time after, I had regarded group selection as so ill-defined, so woolly in the uses made by its proponents, and so generally powerless against selection at the individual and genic levels, that the idea might as well be omitted from the toolkit of a working evolutionist.
David Sloan Wilson: Truth and Reconciliation for Group Selection XIII: Hamilton Speaks 2009
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The body types are further categorized into whether there is a relatively large space between the thighs or no space, that is whether the thighs are andric or genic.
Why does blood type O remove cholesterol from meat-based diets more efficiently than blood type A? 2009
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