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    POLYGENE

    Pronunciation (US): Play  (GB): Play

     I. (noun) 

    Sense 1

    Meaning:

    A gene that by itself has little effect on the phenotype but which can act together with others to produce observable variationsplay

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting body parts

    Hypernyms ("polygene" 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)

    Derivation:

    polygenic (of or relating to an inheritable character that is controlled by several genes at once; of or related to or determined by polygenes)

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