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A gene is the basic unit of heredity in a biological information processing organisms.
Genes are information objects that build and maintain their cells and pass genetic information to offspring by utilizing energy.
In general terms, a gene is a segment of nucleic acid that, taken as a whole, specifies a trait.
The colloquial usage of the term gene often refers to the scientific concept of an allele.
