Definitions
A unit of heredity passed from parent to offspring.
Word origin
From German Gen, from Ancient Greek γενεά (geneá, “generation, descent”), from the aorist infinitive of γίγνομαι (gígnomai, “to come into being”). Coined by Danish botanist Wilhelm Ludwig Johannsen in 1909, in a German-language publication, from the last syllable of pangene.
Used in a sentence
“Near-synonym: cistron (often synonymous)”
“The US supreme court has ruled unanimously that natural human genes cannot be patented, a decision that scientists and civil rights campaigners said removed a major barrier to patient care and medical innovation.”
“Holonym: locus”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
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01“Unit of heredity”4 letters
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