Allele

The word "allele" is a short form of allelomorph ("other form", a word coined by British geneticists William Bateson and Edith Rebecca Saunders), which was used in the early days of genetics to describe variant forms of a gene detected as different phenotypes. It derives from the Greek prefix ἀλληλο-, allelo-, meaning "mutual", "reciprocal", or "each other", which itself is related to the Greek adjective ἄλλος, allos (cognate with Latin alius), meaning "other".

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The Doors of Life

by Omar Khayyam and others in Figures of Speech

The revolving and revised worrisome states we create for ourselves project an antithesis of life hardly recognizable through the eyes of our threat detectors. Evolution made us this way, adaptable to our environment and automatons on a hostile planet.

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