Polymorphism
By Levi Clancy for Student Reader on
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- Parent
- Siblings
- Central dogma
- Chi-squared test
- Darwinian Evolution
- Evolutionary agents
- Gene
- Gene regulation
- Genetic and phenotypic variation
- Genetic code
- Genetic disease
- Genetics and Genomics Questions
- Genomic imprinting
- Genomics
- Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium
- Homeodomain
- Human genetics
- Insertion sequence elements
- Lac Operon
- Linkage analysis
- LOD Score
- Mendel's Laws of Genetics
- Mutation
- Sex
- SRY
If there is more than one common allele for a gene — such as with hair color — then that gene is polymorphic. Polymorphic alleles differ due to single-nucleotide polymorphisms and insertion-deletion polymorphisms.