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LETHAL GENE

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Dictionary entry overview: What does lethal gene mean?

• LETHAL GENE (noun)
The noun LETHAL GENE has 1 sense:

1. any gene that has an effect that causes the death of the organism at any stage of life

Familiarity information: LETHAL GENE used as a noun is very rare.

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• LETHAL GENE (noun)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

Any gene that has an effect that causes the death of the organism at any stage of life

Classified under:

Nouns denoting body parts

Hypernyms ("lethal gene" is a kind of...):

cistron; factor; gene ((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)

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