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

1 sense of oncogene

Sense 1
oncogene, transforming gene -- (a gene that disposes normal cells to change into cancerous tumor cells)
       => 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")