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heterozygosity , heterozygosity The presence of different alleles (forms of a given gene) at a particular gene locus. Heterozygosity provides a measure of the genetic… Regulator Gene , regulatory gene In the operon theory of gene regulation, a gene that is involved in switching on or off the transcription of structural genes. When t… gene family , gene family A group of similar or identical genes, usually along the same chromosome, that originate by gene duplication of a single original gene. S… Pseudogenes , Pseudogenes are defective copies of functional genes. These may be partial or complete duplicates derived from polypeptide-encoding genes or RNA gene… Complementary Genes , complementary genes Mutant alleles at different loci which complement one another to give a wild-type phenotype. Dominant complementarity occurs wher… Operon , Operon
An operon is a genetic regulatory system found in prokaryotes and the bacterial viruses (bacteriophages ) that attack bacteria. It is a cluste…
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