dominant allele

collocation in English

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dominant
adjective
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/ˈdɒm.ɪ.nənt/us
/ˈdɑː.mə.nənt/
more important, strong, or noticeable than anything else of the ...
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allele
noun[C]
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/əˈliːl/us
/əˈliːl/
a gene that is found in one of two or more different forms in the same position in a chromosome, and so produces a particular characteristic that can be different for different people, such as ...
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A parent with such a single dose of thedominantalleleis called the simplex parent.
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Adominantalleleacts to unilaterally prohibit recombination in its lineage and thus causes permanent genetic isolation.
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For dominant epistasis, thedominantalleleat the first locus is also dominant over the alleles at the second locus.
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The pattern of inheritance in which the recessive allele could give its expression in absence of itsdominantalleleis known as pseudodominance.
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This could happen in the case of loss of genetic material from one homolog bearing thedominantallele.
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Unfortunately, two instances (homozygous) of thisdominantalleleare lethal.
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One comes from adominantallele, while the other comes from a recessive.
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With adominantallele, the offspring is guaranteed to inherit the trait in question irrespective of the second allele.
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Often thedominantallelecodes for a functional protein whereas the recessive allele does not.
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One copy of thedominantalleleis enough to cause the disorder.
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Adominantallelemay account for any of these trait types.
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Genetic analysis has shown that luminescence is controlled by a singledominantallele.
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Those that receive adominantallelefrom one parent and a recessive allele from the other parent will have the dominant form of the trait.
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In this situation of complete dominance, thedominantallelehad the same phenotypic effect whether present in one or two copies.
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Even though they are visually quite distinctive, the simpledominantalleleresponsible for the tobiano pattern is quite close to known and suspected sabino loci.
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A 24-base pair deletion causes the incompletelydominantallelefor melanism in the jaguarundi.
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That is, "both" loci must have at least onedominantalleleto produce the phenotype.
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In males, the "o" allele is thedominantallele, and the "b" allele is recessive to the "y" allele.
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Gray is controlled by a singledominantalleleof a gene that regulates specific kinds of stem cells.
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