How to sign: (genetics) a segment of DNA that is involved in producing a polypeptide chain; it can include regions preceding and following the coding DNA as well as introns between the exons; it is considered a unit of heredity
"genes were formerly called factors";
Similiar / Same: cistron, factor
Categories: sequence
Within this category: allele, dominant gene, genetic marker, homeotic gene, lethal gene, linkage group, modifier, mutant gene, nonallele, oncogene, operator gene, polygene, proto-oncogene, recessive gene, regulatory gene, repressor gene, structural gene, suppressor, X-linked gene, Y-linked gene