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gene families

gene families is the plural of gene family.

Meaning of gene family

Noun

gene family (plural gene families)

  1. A group of closely related genes that make similar gene products.

Questions about gene families

What is gene families the plural of?
Gene families is the plural of gene family.

Words near gene families in the dictionary

  1. gene cassettes
  2. gene drive
  3. gene drives
  4. gene expression
  5. gene expressions
  6. gene families
  7. gene family
  8. gene flow
  9. gene flows
  10. gene gun
  11. gene pool

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Adapted from Wiktionary: gene families (page history and authors); gene family (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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