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A unit used to measure or represent the stability of a gene over the lifetime of a given organism. It is a function of the ratio of the adenine-thymine to the guanine-cytosine content of the gene, and is evidenced by the continual physical expression of the trait coded by the gene.
(11 Nov 1997)
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