gene

名词 n.
中文释义
发音 jēn

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A theoretical unit of heredity of living organisms which may take several values and (in principle) predetermines a precise trait of an organism's form (phenotype), such as hair color.
    — Near-synonym: cistron (often synonymous)
  2. A segment of DNA or RNA from a cell's or an organism's genome, that may take several forms and thus parameterizes a phenomenon, such as (often) the structure of a protein.
    — Holonym: locus

词形变化

genes plural

词汇关系

衍生词
algeny Angelina Jolie gene antigene aristogene atrogene cene cisgene control gene cream gene cytogene eigengene electrochemogene electrogene endogene gene-altered gene bank gene cassette genechip gene complex gene drive gene-engineered gene expression gene family gene flow geneflow gene frequency gene gun geneless genelet genelike gene-manipulated gene-modified gene-napper gene pool gene product generich geneset gene silencing gene splicing genet gene therapy genetic geneticist genetics gene transcription gene transfer gene trap genewise genic genism genome genometastasis genomics gerontogene glycogene histocompatibility gene homeobox gene horizontal gene transfer hox gene immunogene intergene intragene Jolie gene jumping gene lateral gene transfer lethal gene marker gene metagene minigene morphogene multigene oligogene osmogene pangene pharmacogene photogene polygene proxygene pseudogene retrogene selenogene selfish gene subgene suicide gene supergene toll gene transgene unigene virogene X-linked gene
相关词
allele locus dominant recessive

词源

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.
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