c 3 l 1 i 1 n 1 e 1
5 letters · 7 points in Scrabble
Meaning
noun American geneticist who succeeded in transferring a functioning gene from one mouse to another (born in 1934)
originFrom Ancient Greek κλῑ́νω (klī́nō, “to lean, incline”). Introduced by English evolutionary biologist and eugenicist Julian Huxley in 1938 after British mycologist John Ramsbottom suggested the term.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 3.0