noun [C] 1. information in the form of a pattern of chemicals which is received by children from their parents and
which controls one part of the development, behaviour, etc. of an animal or plant
Scientists are trying to find the gene responsible for the disease.
You inherit (=receive from a parent) half your genes from your mother and half from your father.
The illness is believed to be caused by a defective gene.
2. Gene amplification is a scientific method which uses a very small amount of genetic material to
produce enough of it to study.
3. A gene pool is all the genes of a particular population.
He said that toxic chemicals are having a seriously harmful effect on the human gene pool.
4. Gene therapy is the science of changing and curing particular genes that are causing a disease to be given from parents to their children.