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gen

“gen” is a Danish word. Its meaning in English:

noun

  1. gene

Etymology

From German Gen, from Ancient Greek γενεά (geneá, “generation, descent”), from the aorist infinitive of γίγνομαι (gígnomai, “to come into being”). Coined by the Danish biologist Wilhelm Ludvig Johannsen in a German-language publication.

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