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

1 sense of structural gene

Sense 1
structural gene -- (a gene that controls the production of a specific protein or peptide)
       => 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")