Geneticist
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A geneticist is a
mutation analysis
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Education
Geneticists participate in courses from many areas, such as biology, chemistry, physics, microbiology, cell biology, bioinformatics, and mathematics. They also participate in more specific genetics courses such as molecular genetics, transmission genetics, population genetics, quantitative genetics, ecological genetics, epigenetics, and genomics.
Careers
Geneticists can work in many different fields, doing a variety of jobs. There are many careers for geneticists in medicine, agriculture, wildlife, general sciences, or many other fields.
Listed below are a few examples of careers a geneticist may pursue.
- Research and Development
- Genetic counseling
- Clinical Research
- Medical genetics
- Gene therapy
- Pharmacogenomics
- Molecular ecology
- Animal breeding
- Genomics
- Biotechnology
- Proteomics
- Microbial genetics
- Teaching
- Molecular diagnostics
- Sales and Marketing of scientific products
- Science Journalism
- Patent Law
- Paternity testing
- Forensic DNA
- Agriculture
References
- ^ ISBN 978-1438117157.