- Institution/s: Universidad de Valladolid, Universitatea de Vest din Timişoara
- Project: Diccionario Terminológico de Genética (Eurogene)
- Identification number: 136
- Subdomains: Studies of chromatin, Studies of DNA, Studies of RNA, Techniques
- Author/s: Cristina ADRADA RAFAEL, Lucia UDRESCU, Marta VALDENEBRO ARENAS
- Creation / modification date: 01-03-2014
- Term: pleiotropic gene
- Gramatical category: s
- Definition: A gene with multiple effects is said to be pleiotropic.
- Context: These results demonstrate how the functional diversification of the modular CREs of pleiotropic genes contributes to evolutionary novelty and the independent evolution of morphological similarities.
- Weighting mark: nor
- Remission: abr, RFLPs. Source: EMERY, A.E.H. y MUELLER, R.F. (1992) Elements of Medical Genetics, Churchill Livingstone: New York. 8th Edition (p. 36).
- Sources:
- Term: MUNK, Katharina (Hrsg.) (2010). Taschenlehrbuch Biologie: Genetik. Stuttgart: Georg Thieme Verlag, 263.
- Definition: MUNK, Katharina (Hrsg.) (2010). Taschenlehrbuch Biologie: Genetik. Stuttgart: Georg Thieme Verlag, 263
- Context: SCHAAF, Christian, ZSCHOCKE, Johannes (2013). Basiswissen Humangenetik. 2. Aufl. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer Verlag, 52.
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