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.
Each allele encodes a phenotypic feature or a certain inherited characteristic. An individual normally has two alleles for each gene, one contributed by the mother and one by the father. If both alleles are the same, the individual is homozygous; if the alleles are different, the individual is heterozygous.n humans, for example, the allele for brown eyes is dominant, and the allele for blue eyes is recessive. 2 one of two or more contrasting characteristics transmitted by alternative forms of a gene. Also called allelomorph. allelic, adj.