SO:gene 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. SO:0000704 SOFA This term is mapped to MGED. Do not obsolete without consulting MGED ontology. A gene may be considered as a unit of inheritance. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gene SO:gene biological_region