Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun dominant_gene

1 sense of dominant gene

Sense 1
dominant gene -- (gene that produces the same phenotype in the organism whether or not its allele identical; "the dominant gene for brown eyes")
       => gene, cistron, factor -- ((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; "genes were formerly called factors")