• n.
    ⦿(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

Semantic relations

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Lexical context

wn:part of speechnoun
wn:example
⦿genes were formerly called factors
ontolex:lexicalized sense
  1. enl:cistron
  2. enl:factor
  3. enl:gene
wn:interlingual indexili:i65519
wn:eq synonymdn:gen§1

Other

dc:Subjectnoun.body
skos:is in schemeOpen English WordNet
rdfs:labelcistronfactorgene