| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000. |
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| SYLLABICATION: | al·lele |
| PRONUNCIATION: |   -l l |
| NOUN: | One member of a pair or series of genes that occupy a specific position on a specific chromosome. | | ETYMOLOGY: | German Allel, short for Allelomorph, allelomorph, from English allelomorph. | | OTHER FORMS: | al·lelic (-ll k, -l lk) —ADJECTIVE
al·lelism —NOUN
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