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

1 sense of proto-oncogene

Sense 1
proto-oncogene -- (a normal gene that has the potential to become an oncogene)
       => 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")