Term: transcription: (genetics) the organic process whereby the DNA sequence in a gene is copied into mRNA; the process whereby a base sequence of messenger RNA is synthesized on a template of complementary DNA
Candidate hypernym: organic process: a process occurring in living organisms → 1
Candidate hypernym: bootlegging: the act of making or transporting alcoholic liquor for sale illegally → 0
Candidate hypernym: carrier: a person or firm in the business of transporting people or goods or messages → 0
Candidate hypernym: identification: the attribution to yourself (consciously or unconsciously) of the characteristics of another person (or group of persons) → 0
Candidate hypernym: voltaic pile: battery consisting of voltaic cells arranged in series; the earliest electric battery devised by Volta → 0
Candidate hypernym: billy: male goat → 0
Candidate hypernym: gracelessness: an unpleasant lack of grace in carriage or form or movement or expression → 0
Candidate hypernym: meiosis: (genetics) cell division that produces reproductive cells in sexually reproducing organisms; the nucleus divides into four nuclei each containing half the chromosome number (leading to gametes in animals and spores in plants) → 0
Candidate hypernym: enema: an injection of a liquid through the anus to stimulate evacuation; sometimes used for diagnostic purposes → 0
Candidate hypernym: compound eye: in insects and some crustaceans: composed of many light-sensitive elements each forming a portion of an image → 0
Candidate hypernym: hynerpeton bassetti: fossil amphibian of the Devonian having well-developed forelimbs; found in Pennsylvania → 0