In a sentence
Six example sentences with allele, each labelled with its topic.
Every pea plant in the tray carried one allele for wrinkled seeds, hidden until the second generation revealed it.
Science
Screening found that one allele common in the region raised the risk of a treatable enzyme deficiency in newborns.
Medicine
The rare allele that lets these mosquitoes shrug off the spray spread through the marsh in four seasons.
Environment
Studies linked one allele of a serotonin gene to anxiety, though later work found the effect far smaller than first claimed.
Psychology
Mendel never used the word allele, yet his ratios of tall and short peas described exactly what the term would later name.
History
Whether you find coriander soapy depends partly on one allele of a smell receptor gene, which is why dinner tables split.
Cooking
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