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2 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Allelomorph \Al*le"lo*morph\, n. [Gr. ? of one another + Gr ? 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. Allelomorphs which under certain circumstances are themselves compound are called {hypallelomorphs}. See {Mendel's law}. -- {Al*le`lo*mor"phic}, a. 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. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: allelomorph n : one of two alternative forms of a genes that can have the same place on homologous chromosomes and are responsible for alternative traits [syn: {allele}]
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