Alex Dainis 🧬🔬
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Matt :
So if a gene is like an element then an allele is like an isotope. Thanks for this clarification, I'd never heard this before.
2025-10-30 12:01:01
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Tori :
All of a sudden the concept of gene editing makes sense.
2025-11-01 03:10:43
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Gene💜🧬 :
You see I wish I could say this too my family but they think I’m insane and overly obsessed with genetics. LIKE ITS NOT A GENE ITS AN ALLELE AHHHHHGGG
2025-11-30 02:26:17
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Yumi :
I do a lot of domestic animal genetics explaining and I try to use the term gene variant instead of allele because I've found it trips people up 😅 definitely a good point to clarify for people between genes vs alleles
2025-10-31 18:22:55
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nerdnewsroom :
HERE for this. I ALWAYS have students ask about the difference and use the words interchangeably and I completely agree about the public communication element here! ❤
2025-11-03 11:50:17
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user246047222713 :
Ok, so it’s like a particular gene is a car and the alleles are the different brands and models?
2025-11-01 04:33:40
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Steve Palmer :
Accuracy in communication is important to nuanced conversations and education.
2025-10-31 00:03:39
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user5415332331748 :
To help my freshman bio kids understand, I tell them that ‘soda’ is a gene, and Sprite, Mt. Dew, Coke, Diet Coke, etc. are alleles.
2025-11-08 13:13:48
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hi_itsmeganinthelab :
This is also true for blood groups! It’s not just ABO; there are hundreds of blood groups! But only some are clinically relevant. Such like only certain alleles are clinically relevant!
2025-10-30 19:37:33
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VajaJay :
We all have milk in the fridge, but some of us have oat milk.
2025-11-05 22:19:17
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Lola :
We all have BRCA gene?? 😭
2025-10-31 05:32:44
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Spooky Babe :
1000X This!! I spend sooo much time trying to get this through to my students.
2025-10-30 13:33:57
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Science With Sophie 🧠🎭📺 :
👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 chefs kiss
2025-10-31 19:45:16
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Clockwork :
Wow—I’ve been writing about biochem and genetics for YEARS and I never thought to make that distinction!! That’s so intuitive and makes so much more sense. It’s so weird how some parts of the science become like background noise that you forget about while exploring the “deeper” topics. Huge video.
2025-10-30 17:05:12
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Stephanie Greene306 :
Omg this is my pet peeve
2025-10-31 00:08:53
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Ask A Neuroscientist🧠🐁 :
This is wildly educational? I wanna say how did I not know this but I did really bad in genetics😂
2025-10-30 21:57:13
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Liz🩸Blood🧬Cancer PA :
It’s an important distinction.
2025-10-31 00:45:56
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tobytheneuroscientist 🧠 :
I had never thought about the implications of this but in retrospect, so many of my comments include “I have the gene” and I’d never thought to correct them, but I agree the semantics is actually very important. Thanks so much for sharing!
2025-11-03 07:18:46
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Ethan Burstedt🤙 :
This is so important for understanding evolution as well! The variation in alleles leads to different phenotypes, which can eventually make a population more fit as a whole as beneficial alleles get passed down and unhelpful alleles go extinct. One of my favorite concepts is the conservation of important genes shared in almost all of life
2025-10-31 03:06:52
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2026-05-30 14:51:25
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GeneSprouts|Genetics explained :
Very well explained!!
2026-06-19 12:21:07
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pulzer🍁 :
thanks sooooo much 😆😆
2025-12-28 07:36:06
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R A W :
allele vs loci
2025-11-08 16:57:45
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Jeffrey Weisburg :
Well explained!!!
2025-12-07 17:19:27
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Makayla :
GC student here and we like to use the word “variant!” I really like “version” as a way of explaining also!
2025-11-04 22:51:10
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