Usually means: Non-functional copy of gene.
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General (8 matching dictionaries)
  1. pseudogene: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  2. pseudogene: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  3. pseudogene: Wordnik
  4. pseudogene: Wiktionary
  5. pseudogene: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  6. pseudogene: Dictionary.com
  7. Pseudogene: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  8. pseudogene: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. pseudogene: Encyclopedia

Medicine (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Hypermedia Glossary Of Genetic Terms (No longer online)
  4. Microbial Genetics Glossary (No longer online)
  5. pseudogene: Medical dictionary

Science (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Drug Discovery and Development (No longer online)
  2. Glossary of Genetic Terms (No longer online)
  3. pseudogene: Evolution Glossary

Definitions from Wiktionary (pseudogene)

noun:  (genetics) A segment of DNA that is part of the genome of an organism, and which is similar to a gene but does not code for a gene product.

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