Term Name: gene
Synonyms: INSDC_feature:gene
Definition: A region (or regions) that includes all of the sequence elements necessary to encode a functional transcript. A gene may include regulatory regions, transcribed regions and/or other functional sequence regions.
Ontology: Sequence Ontology [SO:0000704]

Relationships
has parts: gene_component_region
is a type of: biological_region
has subtype: candidate_gene cryptic_gene engineered_gene epigenetically_modified_gene foreign_gene fusion_gene gene_cassette gene_silenced_by_DNA_modification gene_with_non_canonical_start_codon gene_with_polycistronic_transcript gene_with_trans_spliced_transcript maternally_imprinted_gene mt_gene ncRNA_gene negatively_autoregulated_gene nuclear_gene nucleomorph_gene paternally_imprinted_gene plasmid_gene plastid_gene positively_autoregulated_gene post_translationally_regulated_gene predicted_gene protein_coding_gene proviral_gene recombinationally_rearranged_gene rescue_gene retrogene silenced_gene transgene translationally_regulated_gene transposable_element_gene vertebrate_immune_system_gene wild_type_rescue_gene
inverse member_of: gene_member_region
inverse non_functional_homolog_of: pseudogene
inverse variant_of: allele
member_of: gene_group