gen

Concepts

gene

Gen

Gen-Gbe

cholinergic

Gẽ

Synonyms

cholinergisch

gener

Translations

Gen

gène

gene

gen

gene

gene

gen

gen

γονίδιο

gèn

مورثة

gen-gbe

cholinergique

fibre del sistema nervoso

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ɣɛn/

Etymology

From German Gen, from Ancient Greek γενεά (geneá, “generation, descent”), from the aorist infinitive of γίγνομαι (gígnomai, “I come into being”). Coined by the Danish biologist Wilhelm Ludvig Johannsen in a German-language publication.