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いでんし
Meanings
Noun
1. gene
Adjective (の)
Pre-noun adjective
2. genetic
Alt. forms
遺い伝でん子し
99%
いでんし
Pitch accent
い
で
んし
Used in: 5
Composed of
heredity; (genetic) inheritance
child (esp. a boy); viscount; founder of a school of thought (esp. Confucius); master; masters and philosophers (categorization of Chinese classical literature); (arch.) you; -er (i.e. man who spends all his time doing...)
Used in vocabulary (54 in total)
recessive gene
allele; allelomorph
lethal gene
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Examples (2 in total)
Some diseases are caused by a defective gene.
Without the random mutation of genes there would be no evolution.