A Gene is a part of the DNA. Allele is kind of like the genetic code, or trait. Ex. AA
Alleles
Genes and alleles are related because alleles are inside a gene. Genes are made up by alleles. A gene is DNA. The allele is like piece of DNA inside a gene.
That depends on the gene: some genes have only a few alleles, some genes have hundreds or even thousands of alleles.
alleles
Alleles are genes that exist in multiple forms.
alleles
genes
Alleles are forms of genes for a trait.
different form of genes are called allele
alleles
That depends on the gene: some genes have only a few alleles, some genes have hundreds or even thousands of alleles.
Multiple alleles are genes that have more than two alleles. An example of this would be blood types, with ABO as three separate alleles.Polygenic traits are traits whose phenotype rely on alleles from different genes. An example of this would be hair type, which relies on genes from different parts of chromosomes.The main difference is that multiple alleles are genes with 3 or more alleles; polygenic traits do not necessarily have more alleles, but they rely on on multiple genes.