Allele | A-Z of the Human Body

Dr. Matt and Dr. Mike's Medical Podcast

Dr. Mike Todorovic

Physiology, Physiotherapy, Health & Fitness, University, Science, Nursing, Education, Health, Anatomy, Medicine

4.8 • 675 Ratings

🗓️ 26 December 2023

⏱️ 15 minutes

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'A' - Todays term from the Anatomy & Physiology textbook is " Allele ".

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0:00.0	Welcome everybody to another episode of Dr Matt and Dr Mike's A to Z of the human body.
0:11.1	We are on the letter A.
0:12.4	We're going through your favourite textbook in the index.
0:15.7	We are on A.L.
0:17.8	Today's term is allele.
0:19.9	Alliel, Matt.
0:20.6	Do you know what an alliel is?
0:21.9	Something to do with DNA.
0:23.4	Yes, deoxyribos nucleic acid.
0:26.3	You know I did my PhD on genetics?
0:29.1	Yes, I did know that.
0:30.1	Okay.
0:30.5	Well, maybe the listener did not.
0:33.7	Parkinson's related, right?
0:35.0	That's right.
0:35.6	So the neurogenetics, well, you probably could just say the genetics of Parkinson's disease.
0:41.2	And so this involved the term alliel.
0:45.0	And so I think to begin, the definition, right?
0:49.3	So an allele is one or two, sorry, is one of two or more versions of a DNA sequence.
0:57.2	So this can be a single base or even a segment of bases at a given what we call genomic
1:03.8	locus or area of the DNA, right?
1:07.0	So the way we think about it is how many chromosomes do we have?
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