cline

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Definition

  1. noun American geneticist who succeeded in transferring a functioning gene from one mouse to another (born in 1934)

Etymology

From Ancient Greek κλῑ́νω (klī́nō, “to lean, incline”). Introduced by English evolutionary biologist and eugenicist Julian Huxley in 1938 after British mycologist John Ramsbottom suggested the term.

In classic literature

Synonyms

Martin Cline

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