…(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…
…(1907–98), US singer and actor; full name Orvon Gene Autry; known as the Singing Cowboy. His credits include the first cowboy song recording (1929) and many musical western movies…
…the nontherapeutic use of gene therapy to enhance athletic performance, such as the supplementation of muscle-building genes…
…(1912–96), American dancer and choreographer; full name Eugene Curran Kelly. He performed in and choreographed many film musicals, including An American in Paris (1951) and Singin' in the Rain (1952)…
…(1909–73) US jazz drummer and bandleader; full name Eugene Bertram Krupa. Featured with Benny Goodman in 1934, he was the first major popular drum soloist…
…a gene that is capable of causing the death of an organism, usually during the development of the embryo. Also called lethal factor, lethal mutation…
…(1898–1978), US boxer; born James Joseph Tunney. He became world heavyweight champion in 1926 by defeating Jack Dempsey. After defending his title several times, he retired as the undefeated world heavyweight champion in 1928…
…(1935-), US actor; born Jerome Silberman. He cowrote, directed, and starred in The Woman in Red (1984). He cowrote and starred in Young Frankenstein (1974) and also starred in Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory (1971) and Blazing Saddles (1973)…
…the introduction of normal genes into cells in place of missing or defective ones in order to correct genetic disorders…
…(1930-) US actor; full name Eugene Allen Hackman. His notable movies include The French Connection (1971), Superman (1978), Mississippi Burning (1988), and Unforgiven (1992)…
…(1902–99), US golfer; born Eugene Saraceni. He was the first player to win all four Grand Slam titles: the US Open 1922, the Professional Golfers' Association championship 1922, the British Open 1932, and the Masters 1935…
…an introduced gene that causes a tumor cell to produce an enzyme that will attract a drug lethal to the tumor…
…the process whereby, during meiosis, one allele in a heterozygote is converted to the other by a process of mismatch repair…
…the ratio of a particular allele to the total of all other alleles of the same gene in a given population…
…the switching off of the expression of a gene, for example by the introduction of an antisense RNA that blocks translation of the messenger RNA…
…a gene in a genetically modified crop plant that stops the plant from setting fertile seed, thus preventing the farmer from saving seed for the next season…
…a gene whose presence or activity in an organism’s genome is responsible for the pathogenicity of an infective agent…
…the multiple replication of a section of the genome, which occurs during a single cell cycle and results in the production of many copies of a specific sequence of the DNA molecule…
…(1921–91), American television producer and scriptwriter; full name Eugene Wesley Roddenberry. He created and wrote many scripts for the TV science-fiction drama series Star Trek, first broadcast 1966-9…
…the acquisition by an organism of genetic information by transfer, for example via the agency of a virus, from an organism that is not its parent and is typically a member of a different species…
…(1907–98), US singer and actor; full name Orvon Gene Autry; known as the Singing Cowboy. His credits include the first cowboy song recording (1929) and many musical western movies…
