unit factor

American  

noun

Biology.

1. a gene; a sequence of nucleotides that functions as the hereditary unit for a single character.

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unit factor British  

noun

1. genetics the gene responsible for the inheritance of a unit character

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Example Sentences

Mendel called the dominant allele the expressed unit factor; the recessive allele was referred to as the latent unit factor.

From Textbooks • Jun. 9, 2022

We perceive one unit factor in nature; and this factor is that something is going on then—there.

From The Concept of Nature The Tarner Lectures Delivered in Trinity College, November 1919 by Whitehead, Alfred North

The Mendelians have emphasized the rôle of the unit factor in heredity, and the conservation of the unit factor as an entity through all the adventures of matings.

From The Glands Regulating Personality by Berman, Louis, M.D.

It is this unit factor, retaining in itself the passage of nature, which is the primary concrete element discriminated in nature.

From The Concept of Nature The Tarner Lectures Delivered in Trinity College, November 1919 by Whitehead, Alfred North