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Genetics influencing aggression The field of psychology has been greatly influenced by the study of genetics. Decades of research has demonstrated that both genetic and environmental factors play a role in a variety of behaviors in humans and animals (e.
Genette Tate Genette Tate (born 1965) was a cause celebre when she went missing aged 13 while doing a paper round in Aylesbeare, Devon, England, in August 1978. As of July 2006 her disappearance was still not explained, though police have investigated the possibility that she was murdered at the hands of serial child killer Robert Black, who was found guilty of murdering three children in 1994.
Geneva Geneva (pronunciation //; French: Genève //, German: //, Italian: Ginevra, Romansh: Genevra) is the second most populous city in Switzerland (after Zürich), and is the most populous city of Romandy (the French-speaking part of Switzerland). It is situated where Lake Geneva (French Lac Léman) flows into the Rhône River, and is the capital of the Republic and Canton of Geneva.
Geneva accords The Geneva Accords, known formally as the agreements on the settlement of the situation relating to Afghanistan, were signed on 14 April 1988 between Afghanistan and Pakistan, with the United States and the Soviet Union serving as guarantors.
Geneva and Lyons Railroad The Geneva and Lyons Railroad was organized in 1877 and opened in 1878, leased by the New York Central from opening. This was a north-south railroad between Syracuse and Rochester, running from the main line at Lyons south to the Auburn Road at Geneva.
Geneva Accord The Draft Permanent Status Agreement, better known as the Geneva Accord or Geneva Initiative, is an extra-governmental and therefore unofficial peace proposal meant to solve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. It would give Palestinians almost all of the West Bank and Gaza Strip and part of Jerusalem, drawing Israel's borders close to what existed before the 1967 war.
Geneva Call Geneva Call is a Swiss-based NGO working to encourage non-state actors in international conflicts (such as guerrilla groups, liberation movements, and militias) to understand and respect international law, which is generally designed only to encompass states and state armies. They are presently focusing their efforts on landmines, and are attempting to get armed non-state actors to voluntarily renounce the use of these weapons.
Geneva Cemetery Geneva Cemetery is a cemetery in the town of Geneva, Seminole County, Florida). Lewis Paine, a/k/a Lewis Thornton Powell, co-conspirator in the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln, is buried here next to his mother.
Geneva College Geneva College is a small, private, liberal arts college located in Beaver Falls, Pennsylvania, founded in 1848 in Northwood, Ohio by a minister of the Reformed Presbyterian Church of North America. Originally called "Geneva Hall", the college was named after the Swiss center of the Reformed faith movement.
Geneva Conference (1954) The Geneva Conference (April 26 - July 21, 1954) was a conference between many countries that agreed to end hostilities and restore peace in French Indochina and Korea. It produced a set of treaties known as the Geneva Accords, signed on behalf of France by Pierre Mendès-France and of North Vietnam by Pham Van Dong.
Geneva Conference (1973) The Geneva Conference of 1973 was an attempt to negotiate a solution to the Arab-Israeli conflict as called for in UN Security Council Resolution 338 which was passed after the 1973 Arab-Israeli War. It opened on 21 December 1973.
Geneva Creek (Colorado) Geneva Creek is a short tributary of the North Fork South Platte River, approximately 12 miles (19 km) long, in central Colorado in the United States. It drains part of the Rocky Mountains southwest of Denver in northern Park County.
Geneva Cruz Geneva (Geneve) Mendoza Cruz better known as Geneva Cruz, is a Filipina singer and actress. Born on April 2 1976 in Gagalangin Tondo Manila, she comes from the Cruz clan which include celebrities Tirso Cruz III, Sunshine Cruz, Sheryl Cruz and Donna Cruz.
Geneva drive The Geneva drive or Maltese cross is a mechanism that translates a continuous rotation into an intermittent rotary motion. It is an intermittent gear where the drive wheel has a pin that reaches into a slot of the driven wheel and thereby advances it by one step.
Geneva Declaration on the Future of the World Intellectual Property Organization The Geneva Declaration on the Future of the World Intellectual Property Organization is a document signed in 2004 by a number of non-profit organizations, scientists, academics and other individuals urging the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) to focus on the needs of developing countries with respect to intellectual property legislation.
Geneva gown The Geneva gown, also called a pulpit gown or preaching robe, is an ecclesiastical garment customarily worn by ordained ministers in the Christian churches that arose out of the historic Protestant Reformation.
Geneva High School (Ohio) Geneva High School is a four-year comprehensive school and an institute of secondary education located in Geneva, Ohio, USA. It is a member of the Geneva Area City School District and is the largest school within the system.
Geneva Christian Academy Geneva Christian Academy began in 1999 as an educational ministry of Covenant Presbyterian Church, in Buford, Ga. Its purpose is to assist the families of our churches and believing families in the surrounding community in the education of their junior high and high school aged children.
Geneva International Academic Network The GIAN (also known by its French acronym RUIG: Réseau universitaire international de Genève) is an international research network founded by the University of Geneva, the Graduate Institute of International Studies (GIIS/IUHEI) and the Graduate Institute of Development Studies (GIDS/IUED). Various international organizations, notably the UN Office at Geneva and the International Committee of the Red Cross, have also participated significantly in the network's establishment.
Geneva International Music Competition The Geneva International Music Competition (or Concours de Genève Music Competition) is an annual music competition held in Geneva founded in 1939 for a wide variety of instruments, voice, conducting, and small ensemble performance.
Geneva Naval Conference The Geneva Naval Conference was a conference held to discuss naval arms limitation, held in Geneva, Switzerland, in 1927. This is a separate conference from the later general disarmament conference, the Geneva Conference (1932).
Geneva Protocol The Protocol for the Prohibition of the Use in War of Asphyxiating, Poisonous or other Gases, and of Bacteriological Methods of Warfare, usually called the Geneva Protocol, is a treaty prohibiting the use of chemical and biological weapons. It was signed at Geneva on June 17, 1925 and was entered into force on February 8, 1928.
Geneva Reformed Seminary Geneva Reformed Seminary is an unaccredited theological school in Greenville, South Carolina run by the Free Presbyterian Church of North America. Initially called the Whitefield College Of The Bible alongside its companion school located in Banbridge, Northern Ireland, it was renamed in 2002 to avoid confusion.
Geneva School The expression Geneva School refers to (1) a group of linguists based in Geneva who pioneered modern structural linguistics and (2) a group of literary theorists and critics working from a phenomenological perspective.
Geneva School of Diplomacy and International Relations The Geneva School of Diplomacy and International Relations is a university located in Geneva, Switzerland. Its campus is situated on the grounds of the Chateau de Penthes, an old manor with a park and view of Lac Leman.
Geneve 9640 The Geneve 9640 is an enhanced TI-99/4A clone which was built by Myarc as a card to fit into the TI Peripheral Expansion System and used an IBM PC XT detached keyboard as well as a mouse. Released in 1987, it was in many ways similar to the later announced TI-99/8.
Genevestigator Genevestigator is a web-based bioinformatics and systems biology application developed for biologists to rapidly find out in which tissues, at which stages of development, and to what stimuli or genetic modifications genes of given organisms are activated. Results are processed from a large database of manually curated and quality-controlled microarrays hybridized with RNA samples extracted from a large variety of tissues and conditions.
Geneviève de Fontenay Genevieve Mulmann known as de Fontenay (of the name of her companion Louis Poirot de Fontenay), born on August 30, 1932 in Longwy in Lorraine, is the current president of the Committees Miss France, Miss Europe and Miss Universe.
Geneviève Guitel Geneviève Guitel is a French mathematician. She is well-known for her usage of the terms échelle courte and échelle longue (short scale and long scale respectively) to refer to the main numbering systems used around the world.
Geneviève Jeanson Geneviève Jeanson (born on August 29, 1981 in Lachine, Quebec) is a former professional bicycle racer from Quebec, Canada. One of the more colorful, charismatic and controversial cyclists, she won the World Junior Road Race and Time Trial championships in 1999 before bursting onto the women's racing scene in 2000 with a win in the category 1 Tour de Snowy, followed later that Spring by a victory in La Flèche Wallonne World Cup race.
Geneviève Laporte Genevieve Laporte was Pablo Picasso's former lover. She is perhaps most famous for auctioning off twenty works, many with her as a subject, that were bestowed upon her during a secret love affair with Picasso in the 1950's.
Geneviève Waïte Geneviève Waïte (born February 19, 1948) is a South African model, actor and singer. She married John Phillips (of The Mamas & the Papas) in 1972, and they had two children, Tamerlane Phillips and Bijou Phillips.
Genevieve (film) Genevieve (1953) is a British film directed by Henry Cornelius. The film was nominated for Academy Awards for Best Original Screenplay (William Rose) and Best Music Score of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture, composed and played by Larry Adler with dance numbers by Eric Rodgers.
Genevieve Bentz Genevieve Bentz is a young, emerging, artist in the Stonington, Connecticut area. Her artistic training is relatively minimal: only minor training and some direction from Connecticut College professor Martha Wakeman.
Genevieve Blanchett Genevieve Amelie Blanchett (born 1971) is an Australian theatical costume and set designer. She has worked extensively with the Sydney Theatre Company and other Australian theatre groups designing sets and costumes.
Genevieve Blinn Genevieve Blinn (June 12, 1874 - July 20, 1956) was a Canadian actress who appeared on stage and in Hollywood silent motion pictures. Born Genevieve Clothilde Nannery, she was a native of New Brunswick, Canada.
Genevieve Duboscq Genevieve Duboscq is a French author who wrote the best selling My Longest Night - A twelve-year-old heroine's stirring account of D-Day and after. It was originally published in French under the title Bye bye, Genevieve!
Genevieve Hafner Genevieve Hafner is a French photographer based in New York City, known mostly for her colorful and spirited photographs of the street scenes of New York City. Her 100+ postcard collection of New York, under Concrete Jungle, has shown many locals and visiting tourists a new way to look at the city.
Genevieve Hecker Genevieve Hecker (1884 - 1960) was an American golf champion. A member of the Essex County Country Club in West Orange, New Jersey, she won New York City's Metropolitan Golf Championship in 1900, 1901, 1905, and 1906.
Genevieve Lloyd Genevieve Lloyd is an Australian philosopher and feminist who is best known work is Man of Reason: ‘Male’ and ‘Female’ in Western Philosophy.Philosophy School Staff (University of New South Wales) Accessed: January 27, 2007.
Genevieve Morris Genevieve Morris is an Australian actress who has appeared most notably in the sketch comedy series Comedy Inc. She has also had minor parts in other Australian TV series and movies, including several short appearances in Blue Heelers.
GeneWeb GeneWeb is a genealogy software tool with a Web interface, which may be used either off-line or in a Web environment, and was initially conceived by Daniel de Rauglaudre. It uses very efficient techniques of relationship and consanguinity computing, developed in collaboration with Didier RĂ©my, research director at INRIA.
Genex Tower Genex Tower, or Western City Gate (Serbian: Западне Капије Београда), is a 35-storey skyscraper in Belgrade, Serbia, which was designed in 1980 by Mihajlo Mitrovic in the brutalist style. It is formed by two towers connected with a revolving restaurant at the top.
GeneXus GeneXus is a knowledge-based software development tool, mainly oriented to enterprise-class applications for the web and Windows platforms. The developer specifies his applications in a high-level (mostly declarative) fashion, from which native code is generated for multiple environments.
Gengar are one of the fictional species of Pokémon creatures from the multi-billion-dollar Pokémon media franchise—a collection of video games, anime, manga, books, trading cards, and other media created by Satoshi Tajiri. The purpose of Gengar in the games, anime, and manga, as with all other Pokémon, is to battle both wild Pokémon—untamed creatures encountered while the player passes through various environments—and tamed Pokémon owned by Pokémon trainers.
Gengenbach Gengenbach is a town in the Ortenaukreis, Baden-WĂĽrttemberg, Germany and a famous tourist destination on the western edge of the Black Forest with about 11000 inhabitants. Gengenbach is famous for its traditional swabian-alemanic Carnival (Fasend), the historical medieval Old Town (Altstadt) and the world's biggest Advent calendar (The 24 windows of the 18th century City Hall are the "doors").
Genghis Khan (video game) Genghis Khan (Aoki Ookami to Shiroki Mejika: Genghis Khan in Japan) is a NES, DOS and MSX strategy simulation video game that takes the player inside the virtual life of either Genghis Khan or one of his archrivals. The player must arrange marriages, father children, appoint family members to governmental positions, and fight in order to conquer the Old World.
Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World A 2004 book by anthropologist and Macalester College professor Jack Weatherford, Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World is a revisionist history that generally favors the Mongols. It is largely based on The Secret History of the Mongols and emphasizes the military brilliance of Temujin (Genghis Khan).
Genidentity The concept of genidentity, introduced by Kurt Lewin in his 1922 Habilitationsschrift "Der Begriff der Genese in Physik, Biologie und Entwicklungsgeschichte" is today perhaps the only surviving evidence of Lewin's influence on the philosophy of science. However, this concept never became an object of widespread discussion and debate in its own terms.
Genie Genie is the English term for the Arabic جن (jinn). In pre-Islamic Arabic mythology and in Islam, a jinni (also "djinni" or "djini") is a member of the jinn (or "djinn"), a race of creatures.
Genie (Aladdin) Genie is a fictional character from the Disney animated features canon movie Aladdin, as well as related series and sequels. For the original movie, his voice was provided by Robin Williams, though it was later taken over by Dan Castellaneta, after a contract dispute between Williams and the Walt Disney Company.
Genie (Game Engine) the Genie Engine was a game engine developed by Ensemble Studios and used in several popular computer games, such as Age Of Empires, Age Of Empires II and Star Wars Galactic Battlegrounds. Some of those games have been ported to the Apple Mac.
Genie Award Genie Awards are given out to recognize the best of Canadian cinema by the Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television. The awards began in 1980 and were created to replace the Canadian Film Awards (also know as the "Etrog Awards," for sculptor Sorel Etrog, who designed the statuette) which ran from 1949 to 1979.
Genie Francis Genie Francis (born Eugenie Ann Francis on May 26, 1962 in Englewood, New Jersey) is an actress best known as Laura Spencer on the ABC daytime drama General Hospital from April 16, 1976 to January 15, 1982, from November 14, 1983 to December 27, 1983, from October 29, 1993 to September 6, 2002, and October 26, 2006 to November 22, 2006). Genie is of English (father) and Lithuanian (mother) descent.
Genie Gets Her Wish Genie Gets Her Wish is a rare, candid and intimate portrait of Christina Aguilera. This DVD features Christina performing her smash #1 single, "Genie In A Bottle", rare studio footage, live concert performances and exclusive peeks backstage.
Genie in the House Genie in the House is a British sitcom about a widowed Dad (Philip) with two teenage daughters (Emma and Sophie) who move into a new house, but when they went to the attic they found a dusty old lamp. A quick rub of the lamp and out popped Adil, a trainee genie from Balamkadaar who has been confined to life in the lamp for 1000 years.
GenieTexter GenieTexter is a small free GUI software application for sending SMS messages from an internet connected computer. It is scriptable, allowing you to write scripts to send SMS from the application to any web based SMS sending site.
Genichi Kawakami Genichi Kawakami (川上源一 Kawakami Gen'ichi, January 30, 1912 – May 25, 2002) was the president of the Yamaha Corporation from 1950 to 1977, and again from 1980 to 1983. He is often credited with the international success of Yamaha.
Genichi Taguchi Gen'ichi Taguchi (田口 玄一) (born January 1, 1924 in Tokamachi, Japan) is an engineer and statistician. From the 1950s onwards, Taguchi developed a methodology for applying statistics to improve the quality of manufactured goods.
Genichiro Tenryu Genichiro Tenryu (天龍源一郎 Tenryū Gen'ichirō), real name Genichiro Shimada (嶋田源一郎 Shimada Gen'ichirō), born February 2, 1950, is a Japanese professional wrestler. At age 13, he entered sumo wrestling and stayed there for 13 years, after which he turned to Western-style professional wrestling.
Genii (Stargate) The Genii are a human culture from the TV series Stargate Atlantis living in the Pegasus Galaxy. Although they appear to be simple, Amish-like farmers, the Genii are an advanced, militaristic culture that is technologically equivalent to Earth in the 1940s.
Genii characters in Stargate In the science fiction series Stargate Atlantis, the Genii are an advanced, militaristic culture with a technology level similar to mid-20th century Earth, who hide under the mask of simple, Amish-like farmers.
Genioplasty Genioplasty/Mentoplasty is a type of cosmetic surgery that is used to improve the appearance of a person's chin. This can take the form of chin height reduction or chin rounding by osteotomy, or chin augmentation using implants.
Genipin Genipin is the active compound found in the gardenia fruit extract, which is used in Traditional Chinese medicine to relieve the symptoms of Type 2 diabetes. Research by the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Harvard Medical School indicated that the chemical is indeed effective.
Genis-Vell Genis-Vell, also known as Captain Marvel and Photon, is a fictional character, a superhero (and sometime anti-hero) in the Marvel Comics universe. He is the son of Mar-Vell, the first person to take the identity of "Captain Marvel" in the Marvel Universe.
Genistein Genistein is one of several known isoflavones. Isoflavones, such as genistein and daidzein, are found in a number of plants, with soybeans and soy products like tofu and textured vegetable protein being the primary food source.
Genital bisection Genital bisection in males involves the splitting of the penis (and occasionaly the scrotum as well). This still allows for erection, though often the two halves curve into each other, making insertion more difficult.
Genital cutting Genital cutting refers to genital modification and mutilation made to the human genitals using a cutting instrument. This terminology is often used in some literature specifically to avoid using the terms 'mutilation' or 'circumcision'.
Genital integrity Genital integrity is a name for the principle that all human beings have the right to informed consent before any alteration is done to their genitals. Proponents oppose involuntary and medically unnecessary genital modification and mutilation, including male and female circumcision or sexual-reassignment surgery.
Genital reconstructive surgery Genital reconstructive surgery refers to surgery performed on the genitalia of infants, children, or adults for the purpose of correcting birth defects or other anatomic abnormalities, or for the purpose of transforming normal genitalia of one sex into genitalia resembling the other sex.
Genital stage The genital stage in psychology is the term used by Sigmund Freud to describe the final stage of human psychosexual development. According to Freud's theories, this stage begins at puberty and constitutes mature adult sexuality.
Genitive absolute In Ancient Greek grammar, the genitive absolute (Latin: genitivus absolutus) is a grammatical construction consisting of a participle and often a noun which are both in the genitive case, very similar to the ablative absolute in Latin. A genitive absolute construction serves as a dependent clause, usually at the beginning of a sentence, in which the genitive noun is subject of the dependent clause and the participle takes on the role of predicate.
Genitive case In grammar, the genitive case or possessive case (also called the second case) is the case that marks a noun as being the possessor of another noun. The genitive case typically has other uses as well, which can vary from language to language: it can typically indicate various relationships other than possession; certain verbs may take arguments in the genitive case; and it may have adverbial uses (see Adverbial genitive).
Genitorturers The Genitorturers are an Industrial Metal band from The United States, with influences extending into the 1990s Hardcore Punk and Electronic Music. They proclaim themselves to be "The World's Sexiest Rock Band".
Genius (literature) The concept of genius, in literary theory and literary history, derives from the later 18th century, when it began to be distinguished from ingenium in a discussion of the genius loci, or "spirit of the place." It was a way of discussing essence, in that each place was supposed to have its own unique and immutable nature, but this essence was determinant, in that all persons of a place would be infused or inspired by that nature.
Genius (radio series) Genius is a BBC Radio 4 comedy gameshow presented by comedian Dave Gorman. Listeners send in 'genius' ideas which are considered by Gorman and a guest before a studio audience, with a different guest for each show.
Genius Bar The Genius Bar is a station located inside every Apple Retail Store, the purpose of which is to offer help and support for Apple products. Ron Johnson, the Senior Vice President for Retail, has often referred to the Genius bar the "heart and soul of our stores".
Genius Loci (Bernice Summerfield) Genius Loci is a novel by Ben Aaronovitch, focusing on the early career of Bernice Summerfield, a character from the spin-off media based on the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who.
Genius of Love "Genius of Love" is a 1981 (see 1981 in music) song by Tom Tom Club from their eponymous debut album, Tom Tom Club. The song makes its most notable appearance during the Tom Tom Club's section of the Talking Heads film Stop Making Sense.
Genius of the Species "Genius of the Species" is a short story by Reginald Bretnor (first published with the author name "R. Bretnor"), which originally appeared in the anthology 9 Tales of Space and Time edited by Raymond Healy.
Genius Sonority Genius Sonority is a video game developer, whose staff consists of programmers who have previously contributed their talents to the EarthBound, Dragon Quest and Pokémon series of video games. The company's current president, Manabu Yamana, is best known prior to being the founder of Genius Sonority as the director of Dragon Quest V and VI, which are often considered to be the most popular titles in the Dragon Quest franchise.
Genizah A genizah or geniza (Hebrew: }} "storage"; plural: genizot) is the store-room or depository in a synagogue, usually specifically for worn-out Hebrew-language books and papers on religious topics that were stored there before they could receive a proper cemetery burial, it being forbidden to throw away writings containing the name of God (even personal letters and legal contracts could open with an invocation of God). But in practice, genizot also contained writings of a secular nature, with or without the customary opening invocation, and also contained writings in other languages that use the Hebrew alphabet (Judeo-Arabic, Judeo-Persian, Ladino, Yiddish).
Genji monogatari (opera) Genji monogatari is an opera by Japanese composer Miki Minoru, with libretto by Colin Graham based on the homonymous 11th-century classical work of literature by Murasaki Shikibu, composed in 1999 and premiered the following year at the Opera Theatre of Saint Louis in St. Louis, Missouri, United States.
Genji: Days of the Blade Genji: Days of the Blade (GENJI -神威奏乱-) is a PlayStation 3 game that was released on November 11, 2006 in Japan and November 17, 2006 in North America. Like the previous game, it is loosely based on tales from Japanese history.
Genjo Sanzo (Saiyuki) Genjō-Sanzō, or Genjyō-Sanzō (玄奘三蔵法師 Genjō-Sanzō-hōshi, Pinyin: Xuánzàng-Sānzàng-fǎshī) is one of the four main characters in the manga and anime series Saiyūki (Known as Gensōmaden Saiyūki in Japan). His name is spelled Genjō-Sanzō in the English anime and the Singapore English manga, while in the North American English manga it is Genjyō-Sanzō (the -jō is spelt in hiragana as ji-yo-u).
Genkan Genkan (玄関) are traditional Japanese entryway areas for a house or apartment, something of a combination of a porch and a doormat. The primary function of genkan is for the removal of shoes before entering the main part house.
Genkei Masamune Genkei Masamune (1899-1993) was a Japanese botanist, who worked in Formosa and then, after World War II, Taiwan. He was noted for his comprehensive botanical indexes of Borneo and Taiwan, as well as for the identifcation of large numbers of new species.
Genkernel Genkernel is a tool for building a general-purpose modular Linux kernel for Gentoo Linux. Genkernel compiles the kernel with all available device drivers built as modules, then copies these to a RAM disk that is passed to the kernel at boot time, providing automatic hardware detection.
Genki Sudo Genki Sudo (Japanese: 須藤元気 Sudo Genki, born March 8, 1978 in Koto-ku, Tokyo, Japan) is a Japanese mixed martial artist who currently competes in the Japanese based fight organization K-1 HERO'S. He is notable for his elaborate ring entrances and unorthodox fighting style.
Genkō Genkō (元弘) was a Japanese era of the Southern Court during the Era of Northern and Southern Courts after Gentoku and before Kemmu, lasting from 1331 to 1334. Reigning Emperors were Emperor Go-Daigo in the south and Emperor Kōgon in the north.
Genkō War The Genkō War (元弘の乱, Genkō no Ran) (1331-1333) was a civil war in Japan which marked the fall of the Kamakura shogunate (鎌倉幕府) and end of the power of the Hōjō clan (北条氏). The war thus preceded the Nanboku-chō period (南北朝時代) and the rise of the Ashikaga shogunate (足利幕府 or 室町幕府).
Genkurō Genkurō (源九郎) is a shapechanging kitsune (fox-spirit) character who features prominently in the famous jōruri and kabuki play Yoshitsune Senbon Zakura ("Yoshitsune and the Thousand Cherry Trees").
Genlisea Genlisea (corkscrew plants), is a genus of approximately 21 species of carnivorous plant in the family Lentibulariaceae. Occurring in tropical Africa, Madagascar and Brazil, Genlisea is unique in the plant kingdom for specializing in protozoa and for attracting its prey chemically.
Genlyte Group The Genlyte Group is a company that manufactures and sells lighting fixtures and controls. Products designed by the Genlyte Group include indoor and outdoor fixtures for the commercial, residential, theater, and industrial markets.
GenMAPP GenMAPP (Gene Map Annotator and Pathway Profiler) is a free, open-source bioinformatics software tool designed to visualize and analyze genomic data in the context of pathways (metabolic, signaling), connecting gene-level datasets to biological processes and disease. First created in 2000, GenMAPP is developed by an open-source team based in an academic research laboratory.
Genna (crime family) The Genna crime family was one of the major players in the Chicago gangland wars of the 1920s. It consisted of six Sicilian brothers: "Bloody Angelo", Antonio, Mike ("The Devil"), Peter, Sam, and Vincenzo ("Jim").
Gennadi Gerasimov Gennadi (or Gennady) Ivanovich Gerasimov (Russian, Геннадий Иванович Герасимов, born 1930 in Yelabuga) was the Soviet ambassador to Portugal and then-occupied Afghanistan, afterwards foreign spokesman for Mikhail Gorbachev and later press secretary to Eduard Shevardnadze. He is noted for coining the expression "Sinatra Doctrine" in reference to Gorbachev's non-intervention policy with respect to other members of the Warsaw Pact.
Gennadi Sarafanov Gennadi Vasiliyevich Sarafanov (Russian: Геннадий Васильевич Сарафанов; (born January 1 1942 in Sinenkie, died September 29, 2005) was a Soviet cosmonaut who flew on the Soyuz 15 mission.
Gennadi Volnov Gennadi Georgievich Volnov () (born November 28 1939 in Moscow) was a Russian basketball player who won gold with the Soviet basketball team in Basketball at the 1972 Summer Olympics. He trained at the Armed Forces sports society.
Gennadij Vaganov Gennadij Viktorovich Vaganov () (born November 25 1930 in the village of Duvan, Duvansky District, Bashkir ASSR) was a former Soviet cross-country skier who competed during the early 1960s, training at the Armed Forces sports society in Moscow. He earned two bronze medals in the 4x10 km relay at the 1960 Winter Olympics and 1964 Winter Olympics.

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