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Noun gene has 1 sense
gene, cistron, factor - (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; "genes were formerly called factors"--1 is a kind of sequence
 --1 is a part of deoxyribonucleic acid, desoxyribonucleic acid, DNA; chromosome
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