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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. A trait inherited in accordance with Mendel's law of segregation.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. (genetics) a character inherited on an all-or-none basis and dependent on the presence of a single gene

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  • “Here, as elsewhere in tracing hereditariness in so-called functional nervosities, one should take as the unit character for study the mental traits or trends and exclude definite disease entities applied to ancestral disorders.”

    The Journal of Abnormal Psychology

  • “Each is a unit character but showing graded allelomorphic conditions which correspond probably with different stages of arrested development of pigmentation or mentality respectively.”

    The Journal of Abnormal Psychology

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  1. quality
  2. cell
  1. micro-
  2. unit
  1. unit-character
  2. idorgan
  1. unitary
  2. delimiter
  1. line printer
  2. one
  1. byte
  2. creation
  1. logogram

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