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A locus is a particular location or a marker on a chromosome. It can be a gene but really only needs to be an identifiable location on the chromosome. Alleles differ in that they refer to a particular sequence of DNA at a given locus. The distinction from loci is that multiple alleles can exist for the same locus.

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