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How are alleles of particular gane differ feom each other? Explain its significance.

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Alleles are polymorphs that differ in their nucleotide suquence resulting in contrasting phenotype expression. Alleles are the alternative foms of a same gene for, e.g., genes for height have two allele, one for dwarfness (t) and one for tallness (T).
Significance
(i) A character may have two or more contrasting phenotypic expression, thus resulting variation in the population.
(ii) These are used in the studies of inheritance and in understanding therir behaviour.
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