Of the following, which is the most current description of a gene? Of the following, which is the most current description of a gene? a unit of heredity that causes formation of a phenotypic characteristic a DNA sequence that is expressed to form a functional product: either RNA or polypeptide a DNARNA sequence combination that results in an enzymatic product a DNA subunit that codes for a single complete protein a discrete unit of hereditary information that consists of a sequence of amino acids