gene [SO_0000704]

A region (or regions) that includes all of the sequence elements necessary to encode a functional transcript. A gene may include regulatory regions, transcribed regions and/or other functional sequence regions.

gene

ID: SO_0000704

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A region (or regions) that includes all of the sequence elements necessary to encode a functional transcript. A gene may include regulatory regions, transcribed regions and/or other functional sequence regions.

This term is mapped to MGED. Do not obsolete without consulting MGED ontology. A gene may be considered as a unit of inheritance.A gene is any 'gene allele' that produces a functional transcript (ie one capable of translation into a protein, or independent functioning as an RNA), when encoded in the genome of some cell or virion.

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INSDC_feature:gene exact synonym