An oncogene is a modified gene, or a set of nucleotides that codes for a protein and is believed to cause cancer.
Compare with a virus: dormant to active, potential to kinetic, potent(ial) to actual. The proto-oncogene may become a cancer-causing oncogene only under very specific conditions and may, under other...
any gene that is a causative factor in the initiation of cancerous growth
a cancer-causing gene.
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Oncogene is a gene which causes cancer.