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Descriptor English: Genes
Descriptor Spanish: Genes
Descriptor genes
Scope note: Secuencias de ácidos nucleicos que funcionan como una unidad de herencia y codifican instrucciones básicas para el desarrollo, reproducción y conservación de los organismos.
Descriptor Portuguese: Genes
Descriptor French: Gènes
Entry term(s): Cistron
Cistrons
Gene
Genetic Material
Genetic Materials
Material, Genetic
Materials, Genetic
Tree number(s): G05.360.340.024.340
RDF Unique Identifier: https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D005796
Scope note: A category of nucleic acid sequences that function as units of heredity and which code for the basic instructions for the development, reproduction, and maintenance of organisms.
Annotation: general or unspecified; prefer specifics; restorer genes: index GENES, SUPPRESSOR and probably PLANT INFERTILITY; repressor genes = GENES, REGULATOR but also consider REPRESSOR PROTEINS; lac gene = LAC OPERON but consider also LAC FACTORS or LAC REPRESSORS (see note on REPRESSOR PROTEINS); split genes = EXONS or INTRONS
Allowable Qualifiers: DE drug effects
GE genetics
IM immunology
PH physiology
RE radiation effects
Public MeSH Note: 1965; see CHROMOSOMES 1963-1964; for CISTRON see GENES, STRUCTURAL 1980-2005
History Note: 1965; (1963); for CISTRON use GENES, STRUCTURAL 1980-2005
Related: Base Sequence MeSH
Genome MeSH
Genomic Library MeSH
DeCS ID: 5937
Unique ID: D005796
NLM Classification: QU 470
Documents indexed in the Virtual Health Library (VHL): Click here to access the VHL documents
Date Established: 1965/01/01
Date of Entry: 1999/01/01
Revision Date: 2011/06/24
Genes - Preferred
Concept UI M0009078
Scope note A category of nucleic acid sequences that function as units of heredity and which code for the basic instructions for the development, reproduction, and maintenance of organisms.
Preferred term Genes
Entry term(s) Gene
Cistron - Related but not broader or narrower
Concept UI M0009113
Preferred term Cistron
Entry term(s) Cistrons
Genetic Materials - Narrower
Concept UI M0009080
Preferred term Genetic Materials
Entry term(s) Genetic Material
Material, Genetic
Materials, Genetic



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