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morgan

nouncommon in dialogue

  • United Kingdom//ˈmɔːɡən//
  • United States//ˈmɔɹɡən//

A unit for expressing the relative distance between genes on a chromosome.

noun

  1. 1

    A unit for expressing the relative distance between genes on a chromosome.

Etymology

Named for Thomas Hunt Morgan.

Forms

plural
morgans
The neighbouring pagesAlphabetical order follows the rules of the language, not byte values: an accent decides only between two otherwise identical words, and Spanish files Ñ as a letter of its own.

Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).