~ ALLELE  id+ | ONE OF A SERIES | 
          id+ | ALIKE BUT NOT IDENTICAL | 
     as in ALLELIC GENE 
     implies SOME KINE OF RECIPROCITY or 
             RECIPROCAL and ALSO ANOTHER
     as in ALLEGORY from               
     gr    ALLELON ALLOS  = OF ONE ANOTHER
     biol> ALLELE = GENE MEMBER OF A SERIES 
           eg BLOOD GROUP GENES A or B are ALLELES
           note ALLELOMORPHIC  PARALLEL  EQUIVALENT
     IMPLIES RELATIVE SIMILARITY as in ALLO~   
     med> HUMANS CHROMOSOMES ARE PAIRED
          ON EACH CHROMOSOME GENES ARE ARRANGED
     IN A FIXED ORDER or SEQUENCE      sug> MAP
     VARIOUS VERSIONS OF GENES MAY BE FOUND AT 
     SPECIFIC CHROMOSOMAL SITE or LOCUS or 
     SITES OR LOCI
     THE SORTS OF GENES FOUND AT A GIVEN LOCUS ARE
     KNOWN AS ALLELES WHICH DIFFER IN THEIR DNA SEQUENCE
     BUT ARE LINKED TO A SPECIFIC CHROMOSOMAL MAP POINT or
     SITE or LOCUS                 sug> LOCAL  LOCALITY
     EACH HUMAN PARENT WILL PASS TO AN EMBRYO
     23 CHROMOSOMES WITH SIMILAR OR ALLELIC GENES
     THUS A HUMAN EMBRYO is DIPLOIC or DIPLOID  or has
               TWO CHROMOSOMES LOCI and GENES = DIPLO or TWO
~ ALLELO~      prefix to denote  " OF ONE ANOTHER "
               as in ONE FROM A SERIES
~ ALLELOMORPH  gr ALLELON and MORPH = ONE or ANOTHER and SHAPE
               id+ SIMILAR IN SHAPE or CHARACTER
                   implies SIMILARITY IN MORPHOLOGY
               sug> MORPHEUS  MORPHINE         must see> ALLO~
~ ALLELON      OF ONE ANOTHER  see> ALLELE
~ ALLERGEN     from gr ALLOS and ERGON
                       OTHER     ACT   as in ALTERED RESPONSE
~ ALLERGY      id+ HYPERSENSITIVITY 
                   also CHANGED REACTIVITY
  med> in modern parlance it denotes 
       EXCESSIVE and or ABNORMAL SENSITIVITY    sug> REACTION
  continued under see> ALLO~ 

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