The gene can be reductively explained as follows: (1) The gene is the unit of hereditary transmission (by analysis); (2) Regions of DNA are the unit of hereditary transmission (by empirical investigation); (3) Therefore, the gene is regions of DNA (by transitivity of identity).

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