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Gene

dʒiːn

Gene definitions

noun

Inflections:

gene genes

(in informal use) a unit of heredity which is transferred from a parent to offspring and is held to determine some characteristic of the offspring

"playing tennis is in my genes"

Synonyms:
congenital characteristics congenital traits genetics genetic make-up genes
- (in technical use) a distinct sequence of nucleotides forming part of a chromosome, the order of which determines the order of monomers in a polypeptide or nucleic acid molecule which a cell (or virus) may synthesize