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Grade 7
(genes) 1 syllables

Definition

plural noun. units of heredity made of DNA. they determine traits and characteristics in living things.

Example Sentence

Genes determine your physical traits.

More Example Sentences

They pass traits from parents to children.

Synonyms

DNA; heredity; traits

Antonyms

jean

Hear It! Say It! Write It!

genes
Hear It! Say It! Write It!

Rhymes

  • bean's
  • beans
  • brenes
  • cheane's
  • cleans
  • dean's
  • deans
  • deines
  • denes
  • eanes
  • gene's
  • genes
  • gleans
  • green's
  • greene's
  • greens
  • greens'
  • henes
  • jean's
  • jeanes
  • jeans
  • kean's
  • leans
  • leins
  • liens
  • means
  • means'
  • peens
  • queen's
  • queens
  • saenz
  • scenes
  • screens
  • skeens
  • stiens
  • teens
  • viens
  • weins
  • wiens

  • betweens
  • burdine's
  • burdines
  • canteens
  • careens
  • christine's
  • convenes
  • cortines
  • cremeens
  • cuisines
  • demeans
  • eighteen's
  • eighteens
  • fifteen's
  • fifteens
  • filene's
  • fourteens
  • francine's
  • francines
  • irene's
  • kathleen's
  • lamine's
  • latrines
  • levine's
  • lorean's
  • machine's
  • machines
  • machines' marine's
  • marines
  • marines'
  • martines
  • mclean's
  • mcmeans
  • preteens
  • rabin's
  • ravines
  • refenes
  • sardines
  • sixteen's
  • sixteens
  • slovenes
  • sunscreens
  • usines
  • vaccine's
  • vaccines

  • figurines
  • gasolines
  • intervenes
  • phillipines
  • reconvenes
  • smithereens
  • submarine's
  • submarines
  • wolverine's

  • nitrosamines
  • nitrosomines
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