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Gene   /dʒin/   Listen
Gene

noun
1.
(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.  Synonyms: cistron, factor.



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"Gene" Quotes from Famous Books



... quiet little laugh of deep content. "Oh, Gene is absolutely plastic. Just a handsome musician. And of good, plain people. His father was a German band leader; his mother is Irish—Margaret Hogan. That will help. And he is ...
— Port O' Gold • Louis John Stellman
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... "'Gene Morgan!" this person exclaimed, rising with great heartiness. "I'd heard you were in town—I don't believe ...
— The Magnificent Ambersons • Booth Tarkington
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... a scornful laugh and a look of angry disdain. "You once said I had the manners of Madame Sans Gene, the washer-woman—a sickly joke, it was. Are you going to be my guide in manners? Does breeding only consist in having clothes made in Savile Row and eating strawberries out of season at a pound ...
— The Judgment House • Gilbert Parker
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... master thrown alone together, day after day, usually became friends in some degree. But there had been nothing at all of camaraderie in their relationship, only a colorless, professional sans-gene, the informality of intimacy without the kindly essence of ...
— Between Friends • Robert W. Chambers
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... "Senor Gene—they Don Carlos vaqueros—they quarrel over me. I only dance a leetle, smile a leetle, and they quarrel. I beg they be good—watch out for Sheriff Hawe... and now Sheriff Hawe put me in jail. I so frighten; he try make leetle love to Bonita once, and ...
— The Light of Western Stars • Zane Grey
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... shewed by his language and demeanour that he had not forgotten that he was a postillion, he gradually acquired a confidence and ease of manner among his new associates, and displayed a mixture of intelligence and enthusiasm, which induced his confederates gene. rally to acknowledge his voice as the first ...
— La Vendee • Anthony Trollope
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Words linked to "Gene" :   modifier, genic, allelomorph, deoxyribonucleic acid, chromosome, suppresser, nonallele, sequence, desoxyribonucleic acid, linkage group, molecular biology, DNA, allele, suppressor


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