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allele Biol.|ˈæliːl|
Also allel.
[ad. G. allel, abbrev. of allelomorph]
= allelomorph. Hence aˈllelic a.; aˈllelism = allelomorphism.
1931J. A. Jenkins in Univ. Calif. Publ. Agric. Sci. VI. 390 The most probable assumption is that..there are many different combinations of alleles. 1934Genetics July 310 (title) Alleles of the Mallard Plumage Pattern. 1935Science 12 July 37/2 Allelic..allelism. 1939Nature 11 Nov. (Suppl.) 822/1 D. Ferriman found that oxycephaly and acrocephalosyndactyly are dominant conditions, probably allelomorphic, and that a third allele may be acholuric jaundice. 1940Hinsie & Shatzky Psychiatric Dict. 21/1 Each gene is an allele of, or is allelic to, the other... Brown and blue eyes in man are alleles of each other, as is red and white color in snapdragons. 1953J. S. Huxley Evol. in Action i. 26 Each particular kind of gene can exist in a number of slightly different forms or ‘allels’, each allel exerting a slightly different effect in development. 1956C. H. Waddington in A. Pryce-Jones New Outl. Mod. Knowl. 232 Geneticists speak of the whole family of genes..as occupying a ‘locus’. The different members of the family are the ‘alleles’ of the locus. |