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"If the theory we propose for the 'genetic' mechanisms of the crystals is right, then I would not be surprised if miners find more of these caves in the next few years," Juan Manuel Garcia-Ruiz, from the University of Granada, Spain, told BBC News.
The quotes around "genetic" seem to show Auntie has forgotten "genetic" originated as the adjective from "genesis." <rolls eyes>

(The modern meaning is a back-formation from "genetics", which words was invented by William Bateson a century ago as the science of the genesis of heritable biological characteristics.)
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