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from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Biol.) One of the smaller vital units of a cell, the bearer of vitality and heredity. See Pangen, in Supplement.
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- noun obsolete, genetics A supposed
supramolecular unit ofheredity
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