Genetics, in biology, the science of genes, heredity, and the variation of organismsGenetic, used as an adjective, refers to genesGenetic disorder, any disorder caused by a genetic mutation, whether inherited or de novoGenetic mutation, a change in a geneHeredity, genes and their mutations being passed from parents to offspringGenetic recombination, refers to the recombining of alleles resulting in a new molecule of DNAGenetic relationship (linguistics), in linguistics, a relationship between two languages with a common ancestor languageGenetic algorithm, in computer science, a kind of search technique modeled on evolutionary biology reference