Associations to the word «Supergene»

Wiktionary

SUPERGENE, noun. (genetics) A group of neighbouring genes on a chromosome that are inherited together because of close genetic linkage and are functionally related in an evolutionary sense.
SUPERGENE, adjective. (geology) (of a mineral) leached and then deposited by descending waters

Wise words

Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.
Nathaniel Hawthorne