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

1 sense of linkage group

Sense 1
linkage group, linked genes -- (any pair of genes that tend to be transmitted together; "the genes of Drosophila fall into four linkage groups")
       => 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")