dominant allele

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   an allele that produces the same phenotype whether its paired allele is identical or different

   Synonymsdominant

   Broaderallele

Questions about dominant allele

What does dominant allele mean?

dominant allele means "an allele that produces the same phenotype whether its paired allele is identical or different".

What is another word for dominant allele?

Close synonyms include dominant. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is dominant allele a common word?

dominant allele is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.