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bicoid

bicoid noun: a gene, in Drosophila and related flies, that specifies which end of an egg will be the anterior and become the fly's head by setting up a concentration gradient of the Bicoid protein.

Noun (1)

bicoid (plural bicoids)

  1. A gene, in Drosophila and related flies, that specifies which end of an egg will be the anterior and become the fly's head by setting up a concentration gradient of the Bicoid protein.

Noun (2) capitalized: Bicoid

Bicoid (plural Bicoids)

  1. A protein, in Drosophila and related flies, specified by the bicoid gene, the concentration gradient of which serves to specify which end of the egg will become the head of the fly.

Forms of bicoid

pluralbicoids
pluralBicoids

Questions about bicoid

What does bicoid mean?
Bicoid means a gene, in Drosophila and related flies, that specifies which end of an egg will be the anterior and become the fly's head by setting up a concentration gradient of the Bicoid protein.
What part of speech is bicoid?
Bicoid is a noun.
What is the plural of bicoid?
The plural of bicoid is bicoids.

Words near bicoid in the dictionary

  1. bicoastally
  2. bicoastals
  3. Bicocca
  4. bicoherence
  5. bicoherences
  6. bicoid
  7. bicoids
  8. Bicol
  9. Bicol Peninsula
  10. Bicol Region
  11. Bicol River

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