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Title: Would blue eyes and green eyes be an allele or gene? Post by: rlfowler on Sep 23, 2012 I am getting confused. Alleles are alternative forms of a gene. Therefore would the gene be the actual thing that is expressed? and the allele would be like blue eyes...green eyes?
Title: Would blue eyes and green eyes be an allele or gene? Post by: fire_crystal on Sep 23, 2012 alleles. the gene would be eye color. so gene is a broader category than allele
Title: Would blue eyes and green eyes be an allele or gene? Post by: rlcdiver on Sep 23, 2012 You are on the right track - a gene codes for a certain characteristic lets say for example eye colour. Alleles are the alternative form eg B (coding for brown eyes) or b (for blue eyes)
The phenotype is the resulting characteristic eg blue eyes |