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allelomorph

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11 lettersPart of speech nounSorted aehlllmooprStarts with AEnds with H0 clues
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  1. An allele; one of the alternative forms of a gene.

Word origin

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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  • 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.

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