DNA is a complex chemical that makes up a gene.
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Gene
//d͡ʒiːn//
Synonyms for "gene" (62 found)
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Closest matches (13)
Strong matches (18)
Related words (31)
Related word relations
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1 entriesRelated terms
4 entriescoordinate
1 entriesderived
91 entriesShowing 16 of 91 words.
desires
2 entrieshas a
1 entrieshas context
2 entrieshas property
1 entriesis a
8 entriespart of
2 entriesrelated to
20 entriesShowing 16 of 20 words.
Translations
92 translations across 76 languages.
Afrikaans
1 entries- geen noun (unit of heredity)
Albanian
1 entries- gjen noun (unit of heredity)
Arabic
2 entries- جِين noun (unit of heredity)
- مُوَرِّثَة noun (unit of heredity)
Armenian
1 entries- գեն noun (unit of heredity)
Azerbaijani
1 entries- gen noun (unit of heredity)
Belarusian
1 entries- ген noun (unit of heredity)
Bengali
2 entries- জিন noun (unit of heredity)
- বংশাণু noun (unit of heredity)
Bulgarian
1 entries- ген noun (unit of heredity)
Catalan
1 entries- gen noun (unit of heredity)
Cherokee
1 entries- ᏧᏚᎪᏛᏅ ᏂᏣᎵᏍᏙᏗ noun (unit of heredity)
Chinese
2 entries- 基因 noun (unit of heredity)
- 遺傳子 /遗传子 noun (unit of heredity)
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 基因 noun (unit of heredity)
Czech
1 entries- gen noun (unit of heredity)
Danish
1 entries- gen noun (unit of heredity)
Dutch
1 entries- gen noun (unit of heredity)
Esperanto
1 entries- geno noun (unit of heredity)
Estonian
1 entries- geen noun (unit of heredity)
Faroese
2 entries- arvaeind noun (unit of heredity)
- ílega noun (unit of heredity)
Finnish
2 entries- geeni noun (unit of heredity)
- perintötekijä noun (unit of heredity)
Franco-Provençal
1 entries- jéno noun (unit of heredity)
French
1 entries- gène noun (unit of heredity)
Galician
1 entries- xene noun (unit of heredity)
Georgian
1 entries- გენი noun (unit of heredity)
German
1 entries- Gen noun (unit of heredity)
Greek
1 entries- γονίδιο noun (unit of heredity)
Gujarati
1 entries- જનીન noun (unit of heredity)
Hebrew
1 entries- גֶּן noun (unit of heredity)
Hindi
3 entries- जीन noun (unit of heredity)
- पित्रैक noun (unit of heredity)
- वंशाणु noun (unit of heredity)
Hungarian
1 entries- gén noun (unit of heredity)
Icelandic
1 entries- gen noun (unit of heredity)
Ido
1 entries- geno noun (unit of heredity)
Indonesian
1 entries- gen noun (unit of heredity)
Irish
1 entries- géin noun (unit of heredity)
Italian
1 entries- gene noun (unit of heredity)
Japanese
1 entries- 遺伝子 noun (unit of heredity)
Kannada
1 entries- ವಂಶವಾಹಿ noun (unit of heredity)
Kazakh
1 entries- ген noun (unit of heredity)
Khmer
3 entries- កត្តាបន្តពូជ noun (unit of heredity)
- សែន noun (unit of heredity)
- ហ្សែន noun (unit of heredity)
Korean
1 entries- 유전자 noun (unit of heredity)
Kyrgyz
1 entries- ген noun (unit of heredity)
Lao
1 entries- ກະລະລະ noun (unit of heredity)
Latin
1 entries- genum noun (unit of heredity)
Latvian
1 entries- gēns noun (unit of heredity)
Lingala
1 entries- kobóta noun (unit of heredity)
Lithuanian
1 entries- genas noun (unit of heredity)
Macedonian
1 entries- ген noun (unit of heredity)
Malay
1 entries- gen noun (unit of heredity)
Malayalam
1 entries- ജീൻ noun (unit of heredity)
Mongolian
2 entries- ген noun (unit of heredity)
- ᠭᠧᠨ noun (unit of heredity)
Nepali
1 entries- वंशाणु noun (unit of heredity)
Norwegian Bokmål
1 entries- gen noun (unit of heredity)
Persian
1 entries- ژن noun (unit of heredity)
Polish
1 entries- gen noun (unit of heredity)
Portuguese
1 entries- gene noun (unit of heredity)
Romanian
1 entries- genă noun (unit of heredity)
Russian
1 entries- ген noun (unit of heredity)
Scottish Gaelic
1 entries- gine noun (unit of heredity)
Serbo-Croatian
2 entries- gen noun (unit of heredity)
- ген noun (unit of heredity)
Sinhalese
1 entries- ජාන noun (unit of heredity)
Slovak
1 entries- gén noun (unit of heredity)
Slovene
1 entries- gen noun (unit of heredity)
Spanish
2 entries- gen noun (unit of heredity)
- gene noun (unit of heredity)
Swedish
1 entries- gen noun (unit of heredity)
Tagalog
1 entries- hene noun (unit of heredity)
Tajik
1 entries- ген noun (unit of heredity)
Tamil
2 entries- பரம்பரை அலகு noun (unit of heredity)
- மரபணு noun (unit of heredity)
Telugu
1 entries- జన్యువు noun (unit of heredity)
Thai
1 entries- หน่วยพันธุกรรม noun (unit of heredity)
Turkish
1 entries- gen noun (unit of heredity)
Turkmen
1 entries- gen noun (unit of heredity)
Ukrainian
2 entries- ген noun (unit of heredity)
- спадко́вень noun (unit of heredity)
Urdu
2 entries- جین noun (unit of heredity)
- وراثہ noun (unit of heredity)
Uzbek
1 entries- gen noun (unit of heredity)
Vietnamese
2 entries- di tố noun (unit of heredity)
- gen noun (unit of heredity)
Volapük
1 entries- gered noun (unit of heredity)
Yiddish
1 entries- גען noun (unit of heredity)
Sample sentences
16 total sentences available.
A great many people were opposed to gene therapy in terms of ethics.
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In ethical terms, a great many people are opposed to gene therapy.
Source: tatoeba (325923)
Some diseases are caused by a defective gene.
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