Allele

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a allo allelewise chromosome allotype polyallelic genetic drift nonallelic gene pool hbd zygous heterozygote neutralism population genetics biallelic nondistorter paramutation codominance pseudohaplotype monoallelic intra allelic suballele microevolution nonallele dominance homozygous isoallele linkage disequilibrium multiple allelism gene transallelic allelotype nullizygous polyallelism geneflow tetraallelic homogenic haplosimilar allodeterminant recessive allelic allozygous microvariant diallelic biallelically anlage autozygous microhaplotype locus pentallelic interallelic multiallelism multiallelic allelically allelism haplotype homozygote heterozygous allelicity homozygosis fixation triallelic maf codominant hardy weinberg equilibrium hardy weinberg principle transvection allelomorphism segregation distorter alleles gene flow dihybrid

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Noun

allele allelomorph

Definition: (genetics) either of a pair (or series) of alternative forms of a gene that can occupy the same locus on a particular chromosome and that control the same character; "some alleles are dominant over others"

Definition: One of a number of alternative forms of the same gene occupying a given position, or locus, on a chromosome.