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5. What is the difference between an allele and a locus?​

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An allele is an alternative form of a gene. ... Locus is the position of a gene on the chromosome. The alleles of a particular gene can be found in the same loci of the homologous chromosome pair. An allele describes a nucleotide sequence of a gene while a locus describes the position of that allele on the chromosome.

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