dominant vs allele

allele vs dominant

dominant and allele both are nouns.

dominant is an adjective but allele is not an adjective.

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

As nouns, allele is a hypernym of dominant; that is, allele is a word with a broader meaning than dominant:

dominant: an allele that produces the same phenotype whether its paired allele is identical or different
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

Other hypernyms of dominant include allelomorph.

dominant (noun)	allele (noun)
an allele that produces the same phenotype whether its paired allele is identical or different	(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
(music) the fifth note of the diatonic scale

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

Difference between dominant and allele

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