Nitrogen trichloride when it was used as a bleaching agent and improving agent in flour(noun)
Wiktionary.org : Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License
Use "agene" in a sentence
"If, in the evolution of the future, a third division of the human race is to be formed by subtracting sex from woman, -- a retrograde development, -- I venture to propose the term agene (+a+ without, +genos+ sex) as an appropriate designation for the new development."
"Take the anticancer drug Purinethol: A variant in agene called TPMT causes one in 300 childhood leukemia patients to suffer life-threatening side effects from the med."
"And although there is almost certainly not agene, or even a handful of genes, that accounts for the transformation from the wolf to the dog, a study of the population genetics of the two species could potentially speak volumes about the origin and history of domestication."