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gene drives

gene drives is the plural of gene drive.

Meaning of gene drive

Noun

gene drive (plural gene drives)

  1. The process or result of causing a gene to spread rapidly through a population; especially the use of one or more molecular tools to stimulate biased inheritance of particular genes to alter entire populations of sexually reproducing organisms.

Questions about gene drives

What is gene drives the plural of?
Gene drives is the plural of gene drive.

Words near gene drives in the dictionary

  1. gene bank
  2. gene banks
  3. gene cassette
  4. gene cassettes
  5. gene drive
  6. gene drives
  7. gene expression
  8. gene expressions
  9. gene families
  10. gene family
  11. gene flow

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