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unit factor
noun
Biology.
- a gene; a sequence of nucleotides that functions as the hereditary unit for a single character.
unit factor
noun
- genetics the gene responsible for the inheritance of a unit character
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A white blaze in the hair, for example, is a well-proved unit factor in man; the factor not only produces a white streak in the hair, but affects the pigmentation of the skin as well, usually resulting in one or more white spots on some part of the body.
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We perceive one unit factor in nature; and this factor is that something is going on then—there.
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It is this unit factor, retaining in itself the passage of nature, which is the primary concrete element discriminated in nature.
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The Mendelians have emphasized the rôle of the unit factor in heredity, and the conservation of the unit factor as an entity through all the adventures of matings.
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