genius
- n someone who has exceptional intellectual ability and originality
Mozart was a child genius - n unusual mental ability
- n someone who is dazzlingly skilled in any field
- n exceptional creative ability
- n a natural talent
he has a genius for interior decorating
genius loci
- n the special atmosphere of a place
- n the guardian spirit of a place
genlisea
- n rootless carnivorous swamp plants having at the base of the stem a rosette of foliage and leaves consisting of slender tubes swollen in the middle to form traps; each tube passes into two long spirally twisted arms with stiff hairs
genoa
- n a seaport in northwestern Italy; provincial capital of Liguria
genome
- n the ordering of genes in a haploid set of chromosomes of a particular organism; the full DNA sequence of an organism
the human genome contains approximately three billion chemical base pairs
genomics
- n the branch of genetics that studies organisms in terms of their genomes (their full DNA sequences)
genotype
- n a group of organisms sharing a specific genetic constitution
- n the particular alleles at specified loci present in an organism