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Polyene vs Polygene - What's the difference?

polyene | polygene |

As nouns the difference between polyene and polygene

is that polyene is an organic compound containing several double bonds, especially one containing a sequence of many alternating single and double bonds while polygene is a group of nonallelic genes that act together to produce phenotype variations.

polyene

English

Noun

(wikipedia polyene) (en noun)
  • (chemistry) An organic compound containing several double bonds, especially one containing a sequence of many alternating single and double bonds

    • polygene

    English

    Noun

    (wikipedia polygene) (en noun)
  • (genetics) A group of nonallelic genes that act together to produce phenotype variations