All 16 Uses of
gene
in
Dune
- "The genetic lines are always in our records," she said.†
Book 1 *
- We might, for example, have wanted to breed her to a close relative to set up a dominant in some genetic trait.†
Book 1
- He glanced at Feyd-Rautha, noting his nephew's lips, the full and pouting look of them, the Harkonnen genetic marker, now twisted slightly in amusement.†
Book 1
- It's in the bloodstream — the urge to mingle genetic strains without plan.†
Book 1
- She was suddenly caught by the idea of genetic traces in her son's features—her lines in eyes and facial outline, but sharp touches of the father peering through that outline like maturity emerging from childhood.†
Book 1
- Certain gene traces in her facial structure were noted in the new way by his onflowing mind, the clues added to other data, and a final-summation answer put forward.†
Book 1
- But it was for the genetic purposes of the Bene Gesserit, by one of you.†
Book 1
- The daughter the Bene Gesserit wanted—it wasn't to end the old Atreides-Harkonnen feud, but to fix some genetic factor in their lines.†
Book 1
- They were all caught up in the need of their race to renew its scattered inheritance, to cross and mingle and infuse their bloodlines in a great new pooling of genes.†
Book 1
- That was Count Hasimir Fenring, the genetic-eunuch and one of the deadliest fighters in the Imperium.†
Book 2
- A genetic-eunuch …. and a killer.†
Book 3
- She could wait with her sisters — ninety generations for the proper combination of genes and environment to produce the one person their schemes required.†
Book 3
- The race of humans had felt its own dormancy, sensed itself grown stale and knew now only the need to experience turmoil in which the genes would mingle and the strong new mixtures survive.†
Book 3
- Fenring was one of the might-have-beens, an almost Kwisatz Haderach, crippled by a flaw in the genetic pattern — a eunuch, his talent concentrated into furtiveness and inner seclusion.†
Book 3
- The Prophet's mother, Lady Jessica, was a natural daughter of the Baron Vladimir Harkonnen and carried gene-markers whose supreme importance to the breeding program was known for almost two thousand years.†
Book A3 -
- This is the label applied by the Bene Gesserit to the unknown for which they sought a genetic solution: a male Bene Gesserit whose organic mental powers would bridge space and time.†
Book Term
Definition:
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(gene) a single segment of DNA which when combined determine inherited traits such as hair color or height