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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. A graphic representation of the arrangement of genes or DNA sequences on a chromosome. Also called gene map.

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  1. n. graphical representation of the arrangement of genes on a chromosome

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  • “More sophisticated and laborious studies further narrowed the region containing the resistance gene to a four-hundred-thousand-nucleotide region of that chromosome,3 and then eventually to a thirty-six-thousand-nucleotide region.4 Painstaking analysis of the details of this area of the parasite’s genetic map uncovered a previously unnoticed gene.”

    Simon & Schuster: The Edge of Evolution

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