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adj. - Of or relating to any one of a number of viable DNA codings that occupies a given position on a chromosome.

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Usage examples (7)
  • HETEROZYGOTE (different yolk), a zygotic individual which contains both members of an allelomorphic pair.
  • HOMOZYGOTE (same yolk), an individual which contains only one member of an allelomorphic pair, but contains that in duplicate, having received it from both parents.
  • Each is a unit character but showing graded allelomorphic conditions which correspond probably with different stages of arrested development of pigmentation or mentality...
  • We now find that albinism in guinea-pigs shows an even greater range of variation,3 yet there can be no doubt of its fundamental unity as a Mendelian character, each grade of...
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