allelic
Americanadjective
Other Word Forms
- allelically adverb
- multi-allelic adjective
Example Sentences
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MSL2, as revealed, may just be one example of such an allelic regulator, suggesting the existence of other factors performing similar roles.
From Science Daily • Nov. 29, 2023
Make and justify a claim regarding the effect of allelic variation on the stability of the guppy population.
From Textbooks • Jun. 9, 2022
For the allelic series in rabbits, the wild-type allele may supply a given dosage of fur pigment, whereas the mutants supply a lesser dosage or none at all.
From Textbooks • Jun. 9, 2022
Figure 3: A genome structure incompatible with conventional meiosis. a, In twenty cases, allelic regions are found to occur on the same chromosome.
From Nature • Aug. 21, 2013
Asterisks highlight colinearity breakpoints between scaffold av1 and its allelic partners av44, av94, av122, av316 and av448.
From Nature • Aug. 21, 2013
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