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基因

jī yīn

Old HSK 6 HSK 3.0 level 6 2-character word

基因 (jī yīn) means "gene (loanword)". It is an HSK 3.0 level 6 word, and was HSK 6 in the old six-level list.

What 基因 means

1. gene (loanword)

The characters in 基因

• 基jī(bound form) base; foundation; (bound form) radical (chemistry)…
• 因yīncause; reason; because

Example sentences

• 我们应该对人使用基因编辑吗？
  Wǒmen yīnggāi duì rén shǐyòng jīyīn biānjí ma?
  Should we use genetic engineering on people?
• 一些疾病的产生原因是基因缺陷。
  Yīxiē jíbìng de chǎnshēng yuányīn shì jīyīn quēxiàn.
  Some diseases are caused by a defective gene.
• 我们的遗传基因真的和黑猩猩几乎一样吗？
  Wǒmen de yíchuán jīyīn zhēnde hé hēixīngxīng jīhū yīyàng ma?
  Is it true that our genetic heritage is almost the same as that of chimpanzees?

Words starting with 基因

• 基因组jī yīn zǔgenome
• 基因体jī yīn tǐgenome (Tw)
• 基因工程jī yīn gōng chénggenetic engineering
• 基因学jī yīn xuégenetics
• 基因技术jī yīn jì shùgene technology
• 基因改造jī yīn gǎi zàogenetic modification; GM
• 基因型jī yīn xínggenotype
• 基因修改jī yīn xiū gǎigenetic modification
• 基因突变jī yīn tū biàngenetic mutation
• 基因码jī yīn mǎgenetic code
• 基因库jī yīn kùgene bank
• 基因治疗jī yīn zhì liáogene therapy
• 基因座jī yīn zuò(genetics) locus
• 基因图谱jī yīn tú pǔmapping of genome

Words containing 基因

• 转基因zhuǎn jī yīngenetic modification
• 等位基因děng wèi jī yīnallele (one of two paired gene in diploid organism)
• 显性基因xiǎn xìng jī yīndominant gene
• 转基因食品zhuǎn jī yīn shí pǐngenetically modified (GM) food
• 隐性基因yǐn xìng jī yīnrecessive gene
• 人类基因组计划rén lèi jī yīn zǔ jì huàHuman Genome Project

Sounds the same

Read jī yīn, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 基音fundamental tone

Where 基因 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of HSK 6 Vocabulary · jī (2) (HSK 6), each one a topic in the dependency graph of HSK 1–6 that opens only once its prerequisites are solid.

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• Every HSK 6 word, with the rest of its level.
• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read jī yīn correctly.
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