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Allelomorph

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    Synonym of allele. obsolete

    "In such cases each member acts as the allelomorph of any other member, and only two can occur in any one female, and only one in any male."

  2. 2
    (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 wordnet

Etymology

From allelo- (“other”) + -morph (“shape”), from Ancient Greek ἀλλήλων (allḗlōn, “one another, each other, mutually, reciprocally”) from ἄλλος (állos, “other”). Coined by English biologists William Bateson and Edith Rebecca Saunders in 1902, in a paper titled "The facts of heredity in the light of Mendel’s discovery".

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