Sevenless

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    A gene in Drosophila melanogaster that encodes a receptor tyrosine kinase protein essential to the development of R7 cells in the embryonic eye. uncountable

Etymology

From seven + -less.

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drosophila melanogaster

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