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Genetics

There are many career paths in Genetics, including:

Medicine: Genetics is the basis for understanding the inheritance of genetic diseases, for providing counseling to families who are at risk of producing children with genetic defects.

Scientific research Learning to understand the molecular basis of genetic diseases inorder to find cure.

Agriculture: Genetics is the basis of breeding new crop plants and livestock.

Biology:  Genetics are used to identify the genes that function in the life of the cell and those that control the development of a complex organism from a fertilized egg.

A rapidly growing biotechnology industry is using genetics to produce a range of products from pharmaceuticals to microchips. Sensitive genetic tests are increasingly being employed in criminal cases to identify individuals from a drop of blood and in food testing to identify minute contamination by disease- causing organisms.

Genetics is a component of virtually every area of biology, and can be found in many subfields within biology, including evolution, behavior genetics, developmental biology, cytogenetics, population genetics, and molecular genetics. The role of genetics in medicine, and the fields of genetic counseling and medical genetics are rapidly growing areas of specialization.

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