bicoid

About 0.02 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. noun A gene, in Drosophila and related flies, that specifies which end of an egg will be the anterior and become the fly's head by setting up a concentration gradient of the Bicoid protein.

Similar words

proboscipedia bithorax complex shibire bicistronicity biocode bicentrism bithorax biocenometer biodomain bicistron

Often followed by

protein mrna and gene rna is mutant product in