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Gene product — A gene product is the biochemical material, either RNA or protein, resulting from expression of a gene. A measurement of the amount of gene product is sometimes used to infer how active a gene is. Abnormal amounts of gene product can be… … Wikipedia
Gene product — The RNA or protein that results from the expression of a gene. The amount of gene product is a measure of the degree of gene activity … Medical dictionary
Tax gene product — A Tax Gene Product is a nuclear protein that has a molecular weight of about 37,000 to 40,000 daltons.Sources: http://www.gsbs.utmb.edu/microbook/ch062.htm … Wikipedia
Gene synthesis — is the process of synthesizing an artificially designed gene into a physical DNA sequence.Gene synthesis was first demonstrated by Har Gobind Khorana in 1970 for a short artificial gene. Nowadays, commercial gene synthesis services are available… … Wikipedia
Gene silencing — is a general term describing epigenetic processes of gene regulation. The term gene silencing is generally used to describe the switching off of a gene by a mechanism other than genetic modification. That is, a gene which would be expressed… … Wikipedia
Gene dosage — is the number of copies of a gene present in a cell or nucleus. An increase in gene dosage can cause higher levels of gene product if the gene is not subject to regulation from elsewhere in the body … Wikipedia
primary gene product — 1. a protein or polypeptide, frequently an enzyme, directly produced by transcription and translation of a gene, rather than by metabolic processing. 2. the unprocessed RNA molecule produced by transcription of a gene … Medical dictionary
Gene expression — For vocabulary, see Glossary of gene expression terms. For a non technical introduction to the topic, see Introduction to genetics. Genes are expressed by being transcribed into RNA, and this transcript may then be translated into protein. Gene… … Wikipedia
Gene — For a non technical introduction to the topic, see Introduction to genetics. For other uses, see Gene (disambiguation). This stylistic diagram shows a gene in relation to the double helix structure of DNA and to a chromosome (right). The… … Wikipedia
Gene-for-gene relationship — The gene for gene relationship was discovered by Harold Henry FlorFlor H.H. (1942) Inheritance of pathogenicity in Melampsora lini . Phytopath. 32:653 669] Flor H.H. (1947) Inheritance of reaction to rust in flax. J. Agric. Res. , 74:241 262]… … Wikipedia
