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fattore ereditario; genidio m; unità ereditaria |
health., nat.sc., engl. |
gene m |
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gene A unit of heredity composed of DNA occupying a fixed position on a chromosome. A gene may determine a characteristic of an individual by specifying a polypeptide chain that forms a protein or part of a protein (structural gene); or repress such operation (repressor gene) [ʤi:n] n | |
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environ. |
gene m |
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abbr., names, dimin. |
Eugene; Eugenia |
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abbr., mil., avia. |
global-positioning-system enhanced |
Nasdaq |
Genome Therapeutics Corporation |
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A short segment of DNA or in the case of some viruses, RNA. Most genes contain the information needed to make a particular protein. see also deoxyribonucleic acid, genome, protein, ribonucleic acid |