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engendering psychology

the project of developing an approach to psychological issues that is sensitive to questions of gender. See feminist psychology; woman-centered psychology. [introduced by U.S. psychologist Florence L. Denmark (1932–  )]

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exon

exon

n. a sequence of DNA within a gene that encodes a part or all of the gene’s product or function. Exons are separated by noncoding sequences (see intron).