Explain how an allele is different from a gene and the relationship between the two.

Genes contain information about specific characteristics/traits which can either be dominant/recessive.

Not all copies of genes are identical an alternative form of a gene is an allele.

Alleles are a way of finding the 2 members of a gene pair.

The allele of a gene is its partner gene.

For example: b is an allele of B and vise versa.

So alleles are pretty much a different form of genes.