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

1 sense of polygene

Sense 1
polygene -- (a gene that by itself has little effect on the phenotype but which can act together with others to produce observable variations)
       => 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")