Similar Meaning

1. allele
2. dna
3. genetics
4. genome
5. allelomorph
6. allelic
7. genetic
8. genomic
9. genetically
10. nucleotide

Rhymes

1. mean
2. green
3. bean
4. machine
5. lean
6. keen
7. screen
8. clean
9. lien
10. between

Words Described by "Gene"

1. environment
2. expression
3. disorders
4. culture
5. interactions
6. mutations
7. transfer
8. conversion
9. therapy
10. defects

Commonly Paired Adjectives

1. single
2. human
3. recessive
4. dominant
5. structural
6. specific
7. particular
8. defective
9. normal
10. autosomal

Categorically Similar

1. chromosome
2. exon
3. subunit
4. splicing
5. autosomal
6. histone
7. drosophila
8. duplication
9. protein
10. recessive

Hypernyms (Type of)

1. protein molecule

What Google Knows

In biology, the word gene can have several different meanings. The Mendelian gene is a basic unit of heredity and the molecular gene is a sequence of nucleotides in DNA that is transcribed to produce a functional RNA.

Related Definition

1. gene:

   n (genetics) A theoretical unit of heredity of living organisms; a gene may take several values and in principle predetermines a precise trait of an organism's form (phenotype), such as hair color.

   n (molecular biology) 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, in general the structure of a protein; locus.

   n A diminutive of Eugene, also used as a formal male given name.