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The Hardy-Weinberg law applied to two alleles. evolution

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Eye. Eyelash. Eyeball. Vision.

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Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519), Italian Renaissance painter from Florence. Engraving by Cosomo Colombini (d. 1812) after a Leonardo self portrait. Ca. 1500.

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Bog body. Head of Tollund Man. Died at about age 30-40, Dated to about 280 BCE early Iron Age. Found Bjaeldskovdal bog Denmark in 1950 near Elling Woman. Most well preserved bog body to date. Human remains mummified in natural peat bogs. mummy, embalm

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Also Known As	allelomorph

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The Hardy-Weinberg law applied to two alleles. evolution

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ApoE4 incomplete dominance heterozygote genomic imprinting dominance recessiveness homozygote codominance gene transposon linkage group determinant mutation oncogene genetic marker tumour suppressor gene genetic code homeotic gene recombination

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DNA strand illustration art, double helix, deoxyribonucleic acid, genetics

What’s the Difference Between a Gene and an Allele?