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unit character

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

n
(Genetics) genetics a character inherited as a single unit and dependent on a single gene
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Noun 1. unit character - (genetics) a character inherited on an all-or-none basis and dependent on the presence of a single gene
character - (genetics) an attribute (structural or functional) that is determined by a gene or group of genes
genetic science, genetics - the branch of biology that studies heredity and variation in organisms
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Modern genetics, he argues, was the product of a broader, atomized "space of flows" of turn-of-the-century modernity, "one among many products of a logic of exchange (rather than possession)" in which human life was increasingly thought through abstract "unit characters" rather than heroic actors embedded in local space (288).
Modernity, Information, and the Management of Life: The Emergence of Genetic Rationality: Space, Time, and Information in American Biological Science, 1870-1920

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