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Definition: Allele |
AlleleNoun1. One of two alternative forms of a genes that can have the same locus on homologous chromosomes and are responsible for alternative traits. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "allele" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1991. (references) |
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Medicine | Either of a pair or series of alternative, contrasting Mendelian characters(as met e. g. in green or albino seedlings)that are controlled by genes occurring at the same locus in homologous chromosomes. Source: European Union. (references) |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
An allele is any one of a number of alternative forms of the same gene occupying a given locus (position) on a chromosome. An example is the gene for blossom color in many species of flower - a single gene controls the color of the petals, but there may be several different versions of the gene. One version might result in red petals, while another might result in white petals.
Many organisms are diploid - that is, they have two sets of homologous chromosomes in their somatic cells, and thus contain two copies of each gene. An organism in which both copies of the gene are identical - that is, have the same allele - is said to be homozygous for that gene. An organism which has two different alleles of the gene is said to be heterozygous. Often one allele is "dominant" and the other is "recessive" - the "dominant" allele will determine what trait is expressed. For example, in the case of blossom color, if the "red" allele is dominant to the "white" allele, in a heterozygous flower (with one red and one white allele), the petals will be red. An exception is "codominance", where both alleles are active - a blending of traits may result, e.g. pink petals.
A wild type allele is an allele which is considered to be "normal" for the organism in question, as opposed to a mutant allele which is usually a relatively new modification.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Allele."
Synonym: AlleleSynonym: allelomorph (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Allele |
| English words defined with "allele": dominant, dominant gene ♦ recessive, recessive gene. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "allele": Allelic Imbalance ♦ crossing-over unit ♦ Gene Conversion, Gene Frequency, Genetic drift ♦ HLA-A1 Antigen, HLA-A3 Antigen. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Allele" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses. Italian (allele). |
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Health | A dominant allele prevails over a normal allele. (references) | |
Half of the participants carried the APOE e4 allele. (references) | ||
People inherit one allele (apoE2, apoE3, or apoE4) of the apoE gene from each parent. (references) | ||
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Allele" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Allele" is used about 83 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 83 | 36,350 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
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Ending with "allele": b-allele. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
allele | 73 |
allele multiple | 6 |
allele definition | 6 |
allele gene | 4 |
allele frequency | 4 |
allele pcr specific | 3 |
allele cavalli sforza | 3 |
allele dominant | 2 |
allele null | 2 |
allele recessive | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "allele"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 等位基 . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | allelomorf (allelic, allelomorph), allel (allelomorph). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | allel, abbel (allelomorph). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | allelomorfi (allelomorph), alleeli (allelomorph). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | allélomorphe (allelic, allelomorph), allèle (allelomorph). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Allelomorph (allelomorph), Allele, Allel (allelic, allelomorph). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | αλληλόμορφον γονίδιον, αλληλόμορφος (allelic, allelomorph), αλληλόμορφο γονίδιο. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | allele. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | alleleay alelomorfo (allelomorph), alelo (allelomorph). (various references) аллель. (various references) alelomorfo (allelomorph), alelo (allelomorph). (various references) allel (allelomorph). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "allele": alleles. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "allele": pseudoallele. (additional references) | |
Words containing "allele": paralleled, parallelepiped, parallelepipeds, pseudoalleles, unparalleled. (additional references) | |
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"Allele" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: alala, Albela, alede, Alella, alere, allael, Allaleh, allee, allel, allelle, allelo, allepeen, allerley, allete, alleve, Alliali, allll, alllll, allula, Almelo, Ballulve, Elleke, Ellel, Hlalele, Jallul, Kallala, lele, Malkele. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "allele" (pronounced ule"lē) |
| 3 | -e" l ē | belly, Celli, deli, jelly, Kelly, Nellie, Nelly, saltarelli, Shelly, smelly, Tele, telly, Vitelli. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-e-l-l-l" | |
-1 letter: allee. | |
-2 letters: alee, lall, leal. | |
-3 letters: ale, all, eel, ell, lea, lee. | |
-4 letters: ae, al, el, la. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-e-l-l-l" | |
+1 letter: alleles. | |
+2 letters: fellable, heelball, labelled, labeller, lamellae, lapelled, pelletal, sellable, tellable, telltale. | |
+3 letters: allegedly, cellulase, glabellae, heelballs, labelable, labellers, lamellate, laurelled, malleable, telltales. | |
+4 letters: cellulases, columellae, expellable, flabellate, flagellate, flannelled, illegalize, klebsiella, lateralled, lavalliere, paralleled, recallable, refillable, relabelled, skeletally, sleazeball, unsellable, valleculae, villanelle. | |
+5 letters: blamelessly, cancellable, celestially, collectable, compellable, electorally, elegiacally, elementally, fallaleries, flagellated, flagellates, illegalized, illegalizes, klebsiellas, lamellately, lavallieres, mislabelled, parallelled, placelessly, relabelling, salmonellae, selaginella, sleazeballs, tagliatelle, villanelles. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)41 6C 6C 65 6C 65 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references).- .-.. .-.. . .-.. . |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000001 01101100 01101100 01100101 01101100 01100101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)A l l e l e |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0041 006C 006C 0065 006C 0065 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)357878717871 |
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