diallelic
diallelic Applied to a polyploid individual with more than two sets of chromosomes in which two different alleles exist at a particular gene locus.
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heterozygosity , heterozygosity The presence of different alleles (forms of a given gene) at a particular gene locus. Heterozygosity provides a measure of the genetic… Homoallelic , homoallelic Applied to allelic mutants of a gene that have different mutations at the same site; as opposed to heteroallelic mutants, which have muta… Complementary Genes , complementary genes Mutant alleles at different loci which complement one another to give a wild-type phenotype. Dominant complementarity occurs wher… Multiple Alleles , Alleles are alternative forms of a gene, and they are responsible for differences in phenotypic expression of a given trait (e.g., brown eyes versus… Regulator Gene , regulatory gene In the operon theory of gene regulation, a gene that is involved in switching on or off the transcription of structural genes. When t… Pseudogenes , Pseudogenes are defective copies of functional genes. These may be partial or complete duplicates derived from polypeptide-encoding genes or RNA gene…
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