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Q: What is the difference between a variant and an allele?
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What is e difference between a dominate and recessive allele?

The answer is that The difference is that dominant dominates, and recessive is dominated.


What is the difference between an inactive allele and an expressed allele?

The inactive allele is invisible in an organism while an expressed allele is the dominant allele and therefor is the phenotype.


What is a dominant or recessive variant of a particular gene?

An allele


Is a dominant or recessive variant of a particualar gene?

an allele


What is another name for an allele?

It is the variant form of a given gene


Is a dominant or recessive variant of a particular gene?

allels


Difference between genes and alleles?

A gene is a trait, an allele are the many variations present in a population for a specific gene.Example I have 1 gene for eye color, but there may be 3 alleles in a population (brown eyes, blue eyes, green eyes.)(keep in mind my examples information is fictitious but it explains alleles)


Is the difference between a dominant and recessive allele?

dominant-appears in first generation recessive-seems to dissapear


What is meant by allele frequence?

How often a certain allele (or trait) occurs in a certain population.


A random alteration in the sequence of DNA nucleotides that provides a new variant allele is called a?

gene mutation


Each copy of a gene is called an allele?

yes, different forms of a gene is called an allele. It was used in the early days of genetics to describe variant forms of a gene detected as different phenotypes


What is meant by alleles?

Allele frequency, or gene frequency, is the proportion of a particular allele (variant of a gene) among all allele copies being considered. It can be formally defined as the percentage of all alleles at a given locus in a population gene pool represented by a particular allele.