When you complete the course in veterinary medicine, you can enter a number of career fields. These include animal care and service worker, veterinary assistant, laboratory animal caretaker, veterinary technologist or technician, zoologist or wildlife biologist.
Princeton's WordNet(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition: allele, allelomorph(noun) (genetics) either of a pair (or series) of alternative forms of a gene that can occupy the same locus on a particular chromosome and that control the same character. some alleles are dominant over others.
Colloquially, the term gene is used when referring to an inherited trait that is usually accompanied by a phenotype as in âtall genesâ or âbad genesâ â but the more proper (scientific) term for this is allele. Word origin: From German Allel, shortened from Allelomorph, from English allelomorph.