Term
Gene
A stretch of hereditary material passed from parents to offspring. Dawkins defines it more broadly: any piece of hereditary material that lasts enough generations for selection to work on it.
The Selfish Gene, Richard Dawkins
Explained in
- The Selfish Gene, Richard Dawkins
- The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer, Siddhartha Mukherjee
A stretch of DNA that holds an instruction for the cell, for example how to build a particular protein.