DNA polymorphism

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Food Biotechnology

One of two or more alternate forms (alleles) of a chromosomal locus that differ in nucleotide sequence or have variable numbers of repeated nucleotide units. (See Allele.)

Susan Allender-Hagedorn and Charles Hagedorn — An Agricultural and Environmental Biotechnology Annotated Dictionary

The existence of two or more alteRNA tive alleles at a DNA -based marker locus.

UN Food and Agriculture Organization — Glossary of Biotechnology for Food and Agriculture