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gene
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gene as in:  the gene impacts eye color

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    If he marries someone who has the gene, their kids will have the same odds as my kids.  (source)
    gene = segment of DNA that can influence biological traits
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    It can be argued that youthful derring-do is in fact evolutionarily adaptive, a behavior encoded in our genes.  (source)
    genes = inherited biology responsible for inherited traits
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    Not murdering living, sentient beings with an independent genetic future.  (source)
    genetic = related to inherited traits or DNA
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    Shawn's undergoing this painful and expensive procedure is the reason my parents would take me to an orthodontist to correct the same defect, which was genetic.  (source)
    genetic = inherited
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    When cornered, desperate, or isolated, man reverts to those instincts that aim straight at survival. ... They will always be the trump cards because they are passed on more frequently from one generation to the next than the gentler genes.  (source)
    genes = segments of DNA that when combined determine biological traits such as hair color or height
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    "A change in gene," Charles Wallace quoted, "resulting in the appearance in the offspring of a character which is not present in the parents but which is potentially transmissible to its offspring."  (source)
    gene = a segment of DNA that can influence biological traits
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    Genetics in Relation to Agriculture, by Babcock and Clausen.†  (source)
    Genetics = the science related to DNA sequences or units of heredity that influence biological traits
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    If you caught damage from radiation—well, no geneticist but know something about radiation.†  (source)
    geneticist = a person who studies DNA sequences or units of heredity that influence biological traits
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    The geneticists warned us of damage to future generations.†  (source)
    geneticists = people who study DNA sequences or units of heredity that influence biological traits
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    Luckily, the Genetic Privacy Act made it illegal for IOI to sample my DNA.†  (source)
    Genetic = related to DNA sequences or units of heredity that influence biological traits
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    This would be like women finding out Jesus had had a twin sister who'd gotten half God's genes but none of the glory.†  (source)
    genes = DNA sequences or units of heredity that influence biological traits
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    The people move closer, men and women both, gathering around, their green eyes luminescent in the semi-darkness, just like the rabbit: same jellyfish gene.  (source)
    gene = single segments of DNA which when combined determine inherited traits
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    People are so wildly different, and it's hard to know when genetics or environment or just bad luck is decisive.†  (source)
    genetics = the science related to DNA sequences or units of heredity that influence biological traits
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common meaning

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    As a young man Gene had been a good athlete and a brilliant student.  (source)
    Gene = a person's name
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    People see my husband and think of Gene Kelly dancing with Leslie Caron.  (source)
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    MY FATHER, GENE, WAS one of those young men who somehow manage to seem both solemn and mischievous.  (source)
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    Back in Gene's day, they were strapping themselves to rocket sleds and lighting the fuse with a cigar.  (source)
    Gene = a person's name
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    Gene Lutz weighed nearly three hundred pounds and needed every square inch.  (source)
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    I thought somebody told me that Gene Forrester was—  (source)
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    Mr. Cartier, whom I never could call "Zhahn" or, as his secretary called him, "Gene," had come from Montreal originally.  (source)
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    I could watch Gene Kelly dance all night; in between the songs and dances, I switched back to the channel where the prehistoric monster was mashing Manhattan, or I wandered out to the kitchen to get myself another beer.  (source)
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    It could be, like, a three-legged sack race, and Gene would be all drunk and happy in the stands and he'd be shouting out, "Junior, you can do it!"  (source)
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    His heart was doing a Gene Krupa drumroll.  (source)
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    I'm Gene Smith, Assistant Chief of the Little Rock Police Department.  (source)
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    For a long time I lay there all alone, listening to the battle, thinking I've been shot, I've been shot: all those Gene Autry movies I'd seen as a kid.  (source)
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    "So, you're going to memorize a poem," Mr. Stessman continued, pausing a moment to smile down at Park like Gene Wilder in the chocolate factory.  (source)
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