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allel

“allel” is a Norwegian Nynorsk word. Its 2 meanings in English:

adjective

  1. allelic, allelomorphic

noun

  1. allele

Etymology

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”).

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