gene
JEEN/d͡ʒiːn/
Pluralgenes
- 1A basic unit that parents pass to their children, helping decide traits like hair color.
Like a recipe card that decides one thing about you, such as your hair color.
A single gene can decide whether your eyes are blue or brown.
Children get one gene from each parent for many traits.
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- 2A small part of DNA that tells the body how to build something, like a protein.
Like a short set of instructions for building one part of the body.
This gene tells cells how to make a certain protein.
Doctors found a damaged gene that caused the illness.
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Origin
From German Gen, taken from a Greek word meaning 'generation' or 'descent'. It was made up by the Danish botanist Wilhelm Ludwig Johannsen in 1909.