Associations to the word «Allele»
Noun
- Locus
- Phenotype
- Mutation
- Chromosome
- Linkage
- Gene
- Deletion
- Genes
- Fixation
- Nucleotide
- Frequency
- Progeny
- Sickle
- Genetics
- Antigen
- Trait
- Susceptibility
- Genetic
- Offspring
- Fertilization
- Amplification
- Mating
- Dominance
- Drift
- Mutant
- Genome
- Fitness
- Pigment
- Inheritance
- Marker
- Dna
- Organism
- Typing
- Variability
- Wild
- Anemia
- Substitution
- Sequencing
- Primer
- Malaria
- Duplication
- Selection
- Variant
- Cis
- Specific
- Polymerase
- Bb
- Segregation
- Persistence
- Variance
- Assortment
- Embryo
- Prevalence
- Equilibrium
- Promoter
- Alcoholism
- Deficiency
- Repeat
- Mrna
- Insertion
Adjective
Wiktionary
ALLELE, noun. (genetics) One of a number of alternative forms of the same gene occupying a given position on a chromosome.
Dictionary definition
ALLELE, noun. (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".
Wise words
In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike
fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the
new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.