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retrogene

n. (context genetics English) A DNA gene copied back from RNA by reverse transcription

Usage examples of "retrogene".

Nowadays the doctors can give you some retrogenes that produce the proteins correctly, to make up for it.

It had gone undetected in standard genetic scans and only started to manifest itself when he was five years old as hidden retrogenes broke loose and began randomly encoding.