Alkylating agents
Chemicals that transfer alkyl (methyl, ethyl, etc.) groups to the bases in DNA.
Allele
(Gr. allelon, of one another, mutually each other); allelomorph e (adj: allelic, allelomorphic). One of a pair, or series of variant forms of a gene that occur at a given locus in a chromosome. Alleles are symbolized with the same basic symbol (e.g., B for dominated and b for recessive); B1, B2, …, Bn for n additive alleles at a locus). In a normal diploid cell there are two alleles of any one gene (one from each parent), which occupy the same relative position (locus) on homologous chromosomes. Within a population there may be more than two alleles of a gene. See multiple alleles.


