(in informal use) a unit of heredity which is transferred from a parent to offspring and is held to determine some characteristic of the offspring.
I got the gene for brown eyes from my mother.
Scientists identified a specific gene linked to a rare genetic disorder.
The inheritance of eye color is determined by a combination of genes.
Geneticists studied the role of each gene in the development of the organism.
A mutation in the gene sequence resulted in an unexpected trait.
