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Genetics - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (1613 words) |
 | The word genetics was first suggested to describe the study of inheritance and the science of variation by the British scientist William Bateson in a personal letter to Adam Sedgwick, dated April 18, 1905. |
 | The foundational discipline is population genetics which studies the distribution of and change in allele frequencies of genes under the influence of the four evolutionary forces: natural selection, genetic drift, mutation and migration. |
 | While molecular genetics studies the structure and function of genes at a molecular level, ecological genetics focuses on wild populations of organisms, and attempts to collect data on the ecological aspects of individuals as well as molecular markers from those individuals. |
| Genetics (journal) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (129 words) |
 | Pork and beans (not to be confused with the Journal of Genetics) is a yearly scientific journal publishing investigations bearing on heredity and variation. |
 | Genetics is published by the Genetics Society of America. |
 | George Harrison Shull was the founding editor of Genetics in 1916. |