allele vs dominant

dominant vs allele

allele and dominant both are nouns.

allele is not an adjective while dominant is an adjective.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
allele	Yes	No	No	No
dominant	Yes	Yes	No	No

As nouns, dominant is a hyponym of allele; that is, dominant is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than allele:

allele: (genetics) either of a pair (or series) of alternative forms of a gene that can occupy the same locus on a particular chromosome and that control the same character
dominant: an allele that produces the same phenotype whether its paired allele is identical or different

Other hyponyms of allele include dominant allele, recessive, recessive allele.

allele (noun)	dominant (noun)
(genetics) either of a pair (or series) of alternative forms of a gene that can occupy the same locus on a particular chromosome and that control the same character	an allele that produces the same phenotype whether its paired allele is identical or different
	(music) the fifth note of the diatonic scale

allele (adjective)	dominant (adjective)
	exercising influence or control
	(of genes) producing the same phenotype whether its allele is identical or dissimilar
	most frequent or common

Difference between allele and dominant

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