Allelomorph

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. An allele.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. one of a number of alternative forms of the same gene occupying a given position on a chromosome
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. One of the pure unit characters commonly existing singly or in pairs in the germ cells of Mendelian hybrids, and exhibited in varying proportion among the organisms themselves; same as allele, 2. Allelomorphs which under certain circumstances are themselves compound are called hypallelomorphs. See mendel's law.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. In biology, one of a pair of mutually exclusive qualities exhibited respectively by each of two pure races or varieties of a species, these qualities being of such a nature that one or the other of the pair is exhibited in perfection, to the complete exclusion of the other, by each cross-bred descendant of the two pure races.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. (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
  • Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    Gene    cistron    factor   
    Variant
    allele    Mendel's law   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    allele