| 等位基因 |
děng wèi jī yīn |
allele (one of two paired gene in diploid organism) |
| 等 |
děng |
to wait for; to await / by the time; when; till / and so on; etc.; et al. / (bound form) class; rank; grade / (bound form) equal to; same as / (used to end an enumeration) / (literary) (plural suffix attached to a personal pronoun or noun) |
| 等位 |
děng wèi |
(physics) equipotential |
| 位 |
wèi |
position / location / place / seat / classifier for people (honorific) / classifier for binary bits (e.g. 十六位 16-bit or 2 bytes) / (physics) potential |
| 基 |
jī |
(bound form) base; foundation / (bound form) radical (chemistry) / (bound form) gay (loanword from English into Cantonese, Jyutping: gei1, followed by orthographic borrowing from Cantonese) |
| 基因 |
jī yīn |
gene (loanword) |
| 因 |
yīn |
old variant of 因 |
| 因 |
yīn |
cause / reason / because |