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gendarmery
  • n  French police force; a group of gendarmes or gendarmes collectively
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gender
  • n  a grammatical category in inflected languages governing the agreement between nouns and pronouns and adjectives; in some languages it is quite arbitrary but in Indo-European languages it is usually based on sex or animateness
  • n  the properties that distinguish organisms on the basis of their reproductive roles
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gender agreement
  • n  agreement in grammatical gender between words in the same construction
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gender identity
  • n  your identity as it is experienced with regard to your individuality as male or female; awareness normally begin in infancy and is reinforced during adolescence
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gender role
  • n  the overt expression of attitudes that indicate to others the degree of your maleness or femaleness
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gene
  • n  (genetics) a segment of DNA that is involved in producing a polypeptide chain; it can include regions preceding and following the coding DNA as well as introns between the exons; it is considered a unit of heredity
    genes were formerly called factors
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gene-splicing
  • n  the technology of preparing recombinant DNA in vitro by cutting up DNA molecules and splicing together fragments from more than one organism
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gene chip
  • n  a microchip that holds DNA probes that form half of the DNA double helix and can recognize DNA from samples being tested
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gene delivery vector
  • n  a vector for delivering genes into cells
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gene expression
  • n  conversion of the information encoded in a gene first into messenger RNA and then to a protein
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