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allele

allele

See also: allèle

English

Noun

allele ‎(plural alleles)

(genetics) One of a number of alternative forms of the same gene occupying a given position, or locus, on a chromosome.
- 2013 May-June, David Van Tassel, Lee DeHaan, “Wild Plants to the Rescue”, in American Scientist, volume 101, number 3:
  Plant breeding is always a numbers game. […] The wild species we use are rich in genetic variation, and individual plants are highly heterozygous and do not breed true. In addition, we are looking for rare alleles, so the more plants we try, the better.

Synonyms

allelomorph

Related terms

Derived terms

allele frequency

Translations

variant of a gene

Catalan: al·lel m
Chinese:
Mandarin: 等位基因 (zh) ‎(děngwèi jīyīn), 對偶基因, 对偶基因 ‎(duì'ǒu jīyīn), 基因等位 ‎(jīyīn děngwèi)
Czech: alela (cs) f
Finnish: alleeli (fi)
French: allèle (fr)
German: Allel n
Greek: αλληλόμορφο γονίδιο n ‎(allilómorfo gonídio)
Hungarian: allél (hu)
Icelandic: samsæta f, genasamsæta f, tvenndargen n

Ido: alelo (io)
Indonesian: alel (id)
Irish: ailléil f
Italian: allele (it) m
Latvian: alēle (lv) f
Portuguese: alelo
Russian: алле́ль (ru) f ‎(allélʹ)
Slovene: alel m
Spanish: alelo (es) m
Swedish: allel (sv) c
Tagalog: ibayo (tl), kaibayong-anyo, kaibayunyo

Italian

Noun

allele m ‎(plural alleli)

(genetics) allele