noun Etymology: German Allel, short for Allelomorph Date: 1928 any of the alternative forms of a gene that may occur at a given locus, either of a pair of alternative Mendelian characters (as smooth and wrinkled seed in the pea), allelic adjective allelism noun
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Meaning of ALLELE in English
Merriam Webster. Explanatory English dictionary Merriam Webster. Толковый словарь английского языка Мерриам-Уэбстер. 2012