polygene

Noun
  1. A gene that by itself has little effect on the phenotype but which can act together with others to produce observable variations (synset 105448131)
    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 heredity

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