allelomorph
Synonym of allele.
Noun
- Synonym of allele.
- In such cases each member acts as the allelomorph of any other member, and only two can occur in any one female, and only one in any male. - 1916, Thomas Hunt Morgan, Sex-linked inheritance in Drosophila, page 11:
Synonyms: allele
Origin
From allelo- (“other”) + -morph (“shape”), from Ancient Greek ἀλλήλων (allḗlōn, “one another, each other, mutually, reciprocally”) from ἄλλος (állos, “other”). Coined by English biologists William Bateson and Edith Rebecca Saunders in 1902, in a paper titled "The facts of heredity in the light of Mendel’s discovery".