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Answer for the clue "One of a pair of genes ", 6 letters:
allele

Alternative clues for the word allele

Usage examples of allele.

His parents must have bribed a technician to conceal the oncogene and Whittington allele in one or the other.

He may, like a blue-eyed person, have two copies of the same allele, or he may have any two alleles chosen from the half dozen alternatives available in the population at large.

All you have to concede is that it is possible for a single gene, other things being equal and lots of other essential genes and environmental factors being present, to make a body more likely to save somebody from drowning than its allele would.

That is say there may be a gene for laying two eggs, a rival allele for laying three, another allele for laying four, and so on, although in practice it is unlikely to be quite as simple as this.

Whenever, in a wild population, a t allele happens to arise by mutation, it immediately spreads like a brushfire.

The one unexplained allele he had found on 22 might not be the source of the problem.

Alliance that you have discovered an un-researched pathological allele and want to find how it causes cell failure.

The allele giving her bridge that innocent flip floated detached in either or both her parents.

Her Myrna Loy allele might hide a matched half that codes for Irish pug: a half-breed, heterozygous.

He has taught himself to see her, has named that recessive allele that manifests itself only once every hundred generations.

He possesses the Lovering allele of cold virus paranoia, wearing wool coats in the height of summer.

An allele that might not have come to the surface for years had Woytowich not been so keen on bestowing super-stimulated intelligence on her.

To simply throw together one allele from a Gliksin and another from a Barast, then just hope for the best hardly seems prudent.

The allele for yellow-eyes has become as common as that for green eyes.

Norman worked harder to educate Sasha, teaching him the basics of math and science and trying to use unfamiliar words in conversation -- atmosphere, adjective, allele, atom, anthropology -- so the boy would have to ask what they meant.