oncogene
Noun
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A gene that disposes normal cells to change into cancerous tumor cells (synset 105447986)
is a type of: cistron, factor, gene - (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 hereditysame as: transforming gene
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