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Definition gene

Etymology

From German Gen, from Ancient Greek ????? (gene�, �generation, descent�), from the aorist infinitive of ???????? (g�gnomai, �I come into being�). Coined by the Danish biologist Wilhelm Ludvig Johannsen in a German-language publication, from the last syllable of pangene.

Noun

gene (plural genes)

  1. (genetics) A theoretical unit of heredity of living organisms ; a gene may take several values and in principle predetermines a precise trait of an organism's form (phenotype), such as hair color.
  2. (molecular biology) A segment of DNA or RNA from a cell's or an organism's genome, that may take several forms and thus parameterizes a phenomenon, in general the structure of a protein; locus.

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