Gene

Morpheme

Gene

Type

free base

Denotation

birth, race, descent, offspring

Etymology

Ancient Greek geneá and génesis, from gignī

Evidence

algeny, antigene, aristogene, atrogene, cisgene, cytogene, eigengene, electrochemogene, electrogene, endogene, gene, genechip, geneflow, geneless, genelet, genelike, generich, genes, geneses, geneset, genesis, genetic, geneticist, genetics, genewise, genic, genome, genometastasis, genomics, gerontogene, glycogene, immunogene, intergene, intragene, metagene, minigene, morphogene, multigene, oligogene, osmogene, pharmacogene, photogene, polygene, proxygene, pseudogene, retrogene, selenogene, subgene, transgene, unigene, virogene

Notes

genesis, kind, gens, and jati are doublets

See Also

Kind, Gens, Jati, Gen(e) [Gene, Gen], Gene, Gene, Genu, Gener, Geni, Gent, Germ, Gn, Gone, N, Nasc, Naiss

Homographs

Gen(e) [Gene, Gen], Gene, Gene