Allele

/ˈæl.iːl/

Synonyms for "allele" (26 found)

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Closest matches (6)

Noun(3 words)
allelic formallelic variantallelomorph

Strong matches (7)

Related words (13)

Noun(5 words)
gene variantgenetic variantlocus variantvariantvariants

Related word relations

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5 relation types

More general

7 entries
cistronfactorgenegene variantgenetic variantgenetic variationlocus variant

More specific

6 entries
beneficial alleledeleterious alleledominant allelemutant alleleneutral allelerecessive allele

Collocations

6 entries
allele frequencyallelic variationdominant alleleheterozygous allelerecessive allelewild type allele

Inflections

1 entries

Derivations

4 entries
allele countallele frequencyallelicallelic variation

Sample sentences

2 total sentences available.

Tatoeba + Wiktionary

Genes are competing directly with their alleles for survival, since their alleles in the gene pool are rivals for their slot on the chromosomes of future generations. Any gene that behaves in such a way as to increase its own survival chances in the gene pool at the expense of its alleles will, by definition, tautologously, tend to survive.

Source: wiktionary

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.

Source: wiktionary

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