gen

Usage

• progeny

  Progeny are children or descendants.

• indigenous

  Living things are indigenous to a region or country if they originated there, rather than coming from another area of the world.

• progenitor

  A progenitor is someone's ancestor; they can also be the originator of something.

• pathogen

  A pathogen is an organism or infectious agent—such as a bacterium or virus—that causes disease.

• carcinogen

  any substance that produces cancer

• endogenous

  of or resembling an endogen

• gender

  a grammatical category in inflected languages governing the agreement between nouns and pronouns and adjectives

• gene

  (genetics) a segment of DNA that is involved in producing a polypeptide chain

• genealogy

  successive generations of kin

• generate

  bring into existence

• generation

  all the people living at the same time or of approximately the same age

• generous

  willing to give and share unstintingly

• genesis

  a coming into being

• genetic

  occurring among members of a family usually by heredity

• genocide

  systematic killing of a racial or cultural group

• genus

  a general kind of something

• miscegenation

  reproduction by parents of different races (especially by white and non-white persons)