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nonallele

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non·al·lele

(non'ă-lēl'),

Used of genes that are not competitors at the same locus; how independently they will behave depends on whether their loci are linked. At least when first formed (for instance, as a result of unequal crossing-over), two nonalleles may be identical.

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