gene
Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
gene /dʒiːn/
▶noun a unit of heredity which is transferred from a parent to offspring and is held to determine some characteristic of the offspring; in particular, a distinct sequence of DNA forming part of a chromosome.
– origin early 20th cent.: from Ger. Gen, from Pangen, a supposed ultimate unit of heredity (from Gk pan- ‘all’ + genos ‘race, kind, offspring’).
'gene' also found in these Oxford entries:
allele
- amplify
- biomarker
- carrier
- centimorgan
- collagen
- complementation
- cyanogen
- designer baby
- determinant
- dominance
- dominant
- epistasis
- express
- factor
- -gen
- gene pool
- gene therapy
- genome
- heterozygote
- homeobox
- homozygote
- jumping gene
- meme
- monogenic
- monohybrid
- mutation
- oncogene
- pleiotropy
- point mutation
- recessive
- recombinant
- repress
- splice
- terminator gene
- transgenic
- unexpressed
- wild type
