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Description

"Each of the units of heredity which (except for polygenes) may be regarded as the controlling agents in the expression of single phenotypic characters and are usually segments of a chromosome at fixed positions relative to each other." [CCO:ea, http://www.oed.com]

Identifier

CCO:U0000004
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