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Ageneticist is abiologist orphysician who studiesgenetics, the science ofgenes,heredity, andvariation oforganisms.[1] A geneticist can be employed as ascientist or alecturer. Geneticists may perform general research on genetic processes or develop genetic technologies to aid in the pharmaceutical or and agriculture industries.[1] Some geneticists perform experiments in model organisms such asDrosophila,C. elegans,zebrafish,rodents orhumans and analyze data to interpret theinheritance of biological traits. A basic science geneticist is ascientist who usually has earned aPhD ingenetics and undertakes research and/or lectures in the field. Amedical geneticist is aphysician who has been trained inmedical genetics as aspecialization and evaluates, diagnoses, and manages patients withhereditary conditions orcongenital malformations; and providesgenetic risk calculations andmutation analysis.
Geneticists participate in courses from many areas, such asbiology,chemistry,physics,microbiology,cell biology,bioinformatics, andmathematics. They also participate in more specific genetics courses such asmolecular genetics, transmission genetics,population genetics,quantitative genetics,ecological genetics,epigenetics, andgenomics.
Geneticists can work in many different fields, doing a variety of jobs. There are many careers for geneticists inmedicine,agriculture,wildlife, general sciences, or many other fields.
Listed below are a few examples of careers a geneticist may pursue.
