Illustration: At a Japanese science museum activity table, a child and an instructor examine a long, clearly twisted DNA model. The instructor holds open a transparent sleeve enclosing just one continuous stretch of the double helix, leaving much longer portions extending beyond both ends.

JLPT N1nounLevel estimated by Bebop

遺い伝でん子し

idenshi

gene

Example sentences

  1. 遺伝子いでんしの突然変異とつぜんへんいがなければ、進化しんかは起おこりえない。

    Without the random mutation of genes there would be no evolution.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

  2. 遺伝子いでんし組くみ換かえ食品しょくひんを食たべるのは危険きけんだと思おもいますか？

    Do you think it’s dangerous to eat genetically modified food?

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

  3. デオキシリボ核酸かくさんは、遺伝子いでんしを作つくっている複雑ふくざつな化学物質かがくぶっしつである。

    DNA is a complex chemical that makes up a gene.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

Kanji in 遺伝子

  • 遺bequeath; leave behindOnイ・ユイKunのこす
  • 伝transmit; go alongOnデン・テンKunつたわる・つたえる・つたう
  • 子childOnシ・ス・ツKunこ・ね

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