gene
/jēn/
noun
(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.
"proteins coded directly by genes"
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Gene
In biology, the word gene has two meanings. The Mendelian gene is a basic unit of heredity. The molecular gene is a sequence of nucleotides in DNA, that is transcribed to produce a functional RNA. There are two types of molecular genes:... Wikipedia
A portal to gene-specific content based on NCBI's RefSeq project, information from model organism databases, and links to other resources.<br />
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GeneCards is a searchable, integrated, database of human genes that provides concise genomic related information, on all known and predicted human genes.