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Word: Gene
Speech Type: Noun
Etymology:
early 20th century: from German Gen, from Pangen, a supposed ultimate unit of heredity (from Greek pan- ‘all’ + genos ‘race, kind, offspring’)
Audio Pronunciation:
Phonetic Spelling:
dʒiːn
Dialects: British English
Definition:
(in informal use) a unit of heredity which is transferred from a parent to offspring and is held to determine some characteristic of the offspring
Short Definition:(in informal use) unit of heredity which is transferred from parent to offspring
Examples:- playing tennis is in my genes
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