Home > Terms > Croatian (HR) > gen

gen

The fundamental physical and functional unit of heredity. A gene is an ordered sequence of nucleotides located in a particular position on a particular chromosome that encodes a specific functional product (i.e., a protein or RNA molecule).

See also: gene expression.

0
Improve it
  • Part of Speech: noun
  • Synonym(s):
  • Blossary:
  • Industry/Domain: Biology
  • Category: Genome
  • Company: U.S. DOE
  • Product:
  • Acronym-Abbreviation:
More
Collect to Blossary

Other Languages:

More

Member comments

You have to log in to post to discussions.

Related terms

hibrid
Biology; Genome

The offspring of genetically different parents. See also: heterozygote.

bihevioralna genetika
Biology; Genome

The study of genes that may influence behavior..

bakteriofag
Biology; Genome

See: phage.

bioinformatika
Biology; Genome

The science of managing and analyzing biological data using advanced computing techniques. Especially important in analyzing genomic, proteomic, and metabolomic research data. ...

hibridizacija
Biology; Genome

The process of joining two complementary strands of DNA or one each of DNA and RNA to form a double-stranded molecule..

recesivni gen
Biology; Genome

A gene which will be expressed only if there are 2 identical copies or, for a male, if one copy is present on the X chromosome..

Terms in the News

Featured Terms

brankat
  • 0

    Terms

  • 2

    Blossaries

  • 2

    Followers

Industry/Domain: Communication Category: Written communication

pismo

Pismo je pisana poruka na papiru. U današnje vrijeme je neuobičajeno komunicirati na ovaj način (osim u službene ili važne svrhe) zahvaljujući ...

Contributor

Featured blossaries

Volleyball terms

Category: Sports   1 1 Terms

Bicycles

Category: Objects   1 5 Terms

Browers Terms By Category

TERMS

SOCIAL

EXTRAS

SOLUTIONS