gen

a unit of heredity that is transferred from a parent to offspring and is held to determine some characteristic of the offspring

gen, genoma, ADN

Collocations gen hereditario · gen dominante

• Scientists have identified the gene responsible for the disease.

  Los científicos han identificado el gen responsable de la enfermedad.

a unit of information in a computer program or system, especially one that can be used to represent an instruction or data item

gen, dato, información

Collocations gen de datos · gen de programa

• The program reads the data from a file and stores it as a gene.

  El programa lee los datos desde un archivo y los almacena como un gen.