Category: G

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…

Cloning: genetic code.  

Something thought to be due to, or caused by, inherited factors.  

The common or nonproprietary name of a drug. The established, official, or non-proprietary, name by which a drug is known as an isolated substance, irrespective of its manufacturer. Each drug is licensed under a generic name, and also may be given a brand name by its manufacturer. The generic name is assigned by the United…

The ability to recall knowledge independent of the occasion when it was learned.  

Common competencies.  

A capacity shared by all languages for creating novel messages from a number of reusable linguistic units. According to Erikson, the shift in concern from oneself in the present to the welfare of others in the future.  

A theory that challenges the beliefs or assumptions that are common to a culture and in doing so develops alternatives to the status quo and furnishes a choice in the place of dogmatic belief.  

Sexual unresponsiveness.