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allelic

American  
[uh-leel-ik] / əˈlil ɪk /

adjective

  1. Genetics. relating to or being an allele.


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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

Parental types are progeny that exhibit the same allelic combination as their parents.

From Textbooks Jun. 9, 2022

Make and justify a claim regarding the effect of allelic variation on the stability of the guppy population.

From Textbooks Jun. 9, 2022

Twenty candidate SSR loci with the greatest in silico allelic diversity were selected for wet laboratory testing on seven individuals from the European Diversity Panel.

From Nature Dec. 25, 2016

Figure 4: Gene conversion and its evolutionary consequences in ameiotic organisms. a, Evidence for gene conversion between allelic regions.

From Nature Aug. 21, 2013

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