Allelomorph

2 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Allelomorph \Al*le"lo*morph\, n. [Gr. ? of one another + Gr.
     morfh` form.] (Biol.)
     One of the pure unit characters commonly existing singly or
     in pairs in the germ cells of Mendelian hybrids, and
     exhibited in varying proportion among the organisms
     themselves; same as {allele}, 2. Allelomorphs which under


     certain circumstances are themselves compound are called
     {hypallelomorphs}. See {Mendel's law}. --
     {Al*le`lo*mor"phic}, a.
     [1913 Webster]
  
           As we know that the several unit characters are of such
           a nature that any one of them is capable of
           independently displacing or being displaced by one or
           more alternative characters taken singly, we may
           recognize this fact by naming such characters
           allelomorphs.                            --Bateson.
     [Webster 1913 Suppl.]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  allelomorph
       n : one of two alternate forms of a gene that can have the same
           locus on homologous chromosomes and are responsible for
           alternative traits; "some alleles are dominant over
           others" [syn: {allele}]