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allele
  1. (genetics) One of a number of alternative forms of the same gene occupying a given position, or locus, on a chromosome.
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  3. Examples:
    1. “The allele for eye color is determined by the combination of alleles inherited from both parents.”
      “Genotype and allele frequencies were calculated from the mean of the 100 nearest values to the mode of the posterior distribution.”
      “The change in allele frequency at the modifier locus during diploid selection is given by Recombination.”
allelicity
  1. (genetics) The degree to which the behaviour of a transcription factor is allele-specific
allelomorph
  1. (genetics) Synonym of allele
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  3. Examples:
    1. “This eye color, which is an allelomorph of white, is also interesting because in the female the color is deeper than in the male.”
      “In the fifth figure the color of the darkest fly is due to a factor called ebony, which is an allelomorph of sooty.”
      “If each is produced by a loss it must be a different loss that acts as an allelomorph to the other loss.”
allelism
  1. (genetics) The existence of two or more alleles of a gene
  2. Examples:
    1. “The mutations were backcrossed and checked for allelism by genetic complementation tests.”
allelomorphs
  1. plural of allelomorph
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  3. Examples:
    1. “We do not know at the moment what processes are primarily affected by the allelomorphs.”
      “Most of our discussions center around a simple case in which the loci are modeled as diploid with two possible allelomorphs.”
      Allelomorphs were named A to F depending on their anodal mobility, A being the fastest one.”
alleles
  1. plural of allele
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  3. Examples:
    1. “In the case of electrons, nine alleles had point-like mutations and three had rearrangements.”
      “Variation within a population is due to the presence of multiple alleles of a gene.”
      “This result is consistent with the idea that the five members of the group are alleles of the same gene.”
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