allel

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See also: Allel and al·lel

English

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Noun

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allel (plural allels)

  1. Archaic form of allele.
    • 1938, United States. National Resources Committee, Reports (issue 2, page 154)
      Hence the female sex-chromosomes have a pair of normal allels for all the sex-determining factors borne in them, while the y-chromosome of the male lacks most of these allels, including the x-chromosomal sex-factors.

German

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Pronunciation

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Adjective

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allel (strong nominative masculine singular alleler, not comparable)

  1. allelic
  2. allelomorphic

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Etymology

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Clipping of allelomorf, coined by English biologists William Bateson and Edith Rebecca Saunders in 1902. Ultimately from the Ancient Greek prefix ἀλληλ- (allēl-) from ἄλλος (állos, other).

Adjective

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allel (neuter allelt, definite singular and plural allele, comparative allelare, indefinite superlative allelast, definite superlative allelaste)

  1. (genetics) allelic, allelomorphic

Noun

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allel n (definite singular allelet, indefinite plural allel, definite plural allela)

  1. (genetics) allele

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Polish

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Polish Wikipedia has an article on:
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Etymology

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Borrowed from French allèle, from Ancient Greek ἀλλήλων (allḗlōn).[1] First attested in 1936.[2]

Pronunciation

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Noun

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allel m inan

  1. (biology) allele
    Synonym: allelomorf

Declension

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Collocations

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  • allel genomugenome allele
  • allel genuallele of a gene
  • allel letalnylethal allele
  • allel markeraallele of a marker
  • allel memumeme allele
  • allel recesywnyrecessive allele
  • allele wielokrotnemultiple alleles
  • częstość/frekwencja alleliallele frequency
  • introgresja alleliintrogression of alleles
  • kombinacja allelicombination of allele
  • kopia allelucopy of an allele
  • liczba allelinumber of alleles
  • obecność allelupresence of an allele
  • proporcja alleliproportion of alleles
  • segregacja allelisegregation of alleles
  • seria alleliseries of alleles
  • układ alleliallele arrangement
  • występowanie alleluoccurrence of an allele
  • zmutowany allelmutant allele

References

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  1. ^ Mirosław Bańko, Lidia Wiśniakowska (2021) “allel”, in Wielki słownik wyrazów obcych, →ISBN
  2. ^ Stefan Kazimierz Pieńkowski (1936) Dziedziczność i środowisko ze stanowiska lekarskiego[1] (in Polish), page 12

Further reading

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  • allel in Polish dictionaries at PWN