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遗传

yí chuán

Old HSK 6 HSK 3.0 level 6 2-character word Traditional 遺傳

遗传 (yí chuán) means "heredity". It is an HSK 3.0 level 6 word, and was HSK 6 in the old six-level list.

What 遗传 means

1. heredity
2. to inherit (a trait)
3. to pass on (to one's offspring)

The characters in 遗传

• 遗yí(bound form) to leave behind
• 传chuánto pass on; to spread; to transmit

Example sentences

• 知识不是遗传的。
  Knowledge is not heritable.
• 通过遗传修饰，我们可以改良农作物。
  Tōngguò yíchuán xiūshì, wǒmen kěyǐ gǎiliáng nóngzuòwù.
  Through genetic modification, we can improve crops.
• 我们的遗传基因真的和黑猩猩几乎一样吗？
  Wǒmen de yíchuán jīyīn zhēnde hé hēixīngxīng jīhū yīyàng ma?
  Is it true that our genetic heritage is almost the same as that of chimpanzees?
• 纽西兰奥塔哥大学的遗传学家尼尔杰梅尔领导了这项研究，试图透过从水样本中提取 DNA 来对湖泊中所有生物物种进行编目。
  Neil Gemmell, a geneticist from the University of Otago in New Zealand, led the study that tried to catalog all living species in the lake by extracting DNA from water samples.

Words starting with 遗传

• 遗传学yí chuán xuégenetics
• 遗传性yí chuán xìnghereditary; inherited; genetic
• 遗传率yí chuán lǜheritability
• 遗传信息yí chuán xìn xīgenetic information
• 遗传工程yí chuán gōng chénggenetic engineering
• 遗传物质yí chuán wù zhìgenetic material
• 遗传性疾病yí chuán xìng jí bìnggenetic disorder

Words containing 遗传

• 光遗传学guāng yí chuán xuéoptogenetics
• 分子遗传学fēn zǐ yí chuán xuémolecular genetics
• 表观遗传学biǎo guān yí chuán xuéepigenetics
• 非遗传多型性fēi yí chuán duō xíng xìngpolyphenism

Where 遗传 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of HSK 6 Vocabulary · yì (HSK 6), each one a topic in the dependency graph of HSK 1–6 that opens only once its prerequisites are solid.

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