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Sickness, physical disability, or other disorder resulting from the inheritance of one or more deleterious alleles..
Industry:Biology
A subunit of DNA or RNA consisting of a nitrogenous base (adenine, guanine, thymine, or cytosine in DNA; adenine, guanine, uracil, or cytosine in RNA), a phosphate molecule, and a sugar molecule (deoxyribose in DNA and ribose in RNA). Thousands of nucleotides are linked to form a DNA or RNA molecule.
See also: DNA, base pair, RNA.
Industry:Biology
Susceptibility to a genetic disease. May or may not result in actual development of the disease..
Industry:Biology
The cellular organelle in eukaryotes that contains most of the genetic material..
Industry:Biology
All the genetic material in the chromosomes of a particular organism; its size is generally given as its total number of base pairs..
Industry:Biology
A gene, one or more forms of which is associated with cancer. Many oncogenes are involved, directly or indirectly, in controlling the rate of cell growth..
Industry:Biology
The genetic constitution of an organism, as distinguished from its physical appearance (its phenotype)..
Industry:Biology
In genetics, conferring the right or title to genes, gene variations, or identifiable portions of sequenced genetic material to an individual or organization.
See also: gene.
Industry:Biology
