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INDIVIDUAL, animals of a given species show well-defined, genetically controlled differences in the composition of certain isofunctional proteins. This molecular polymorphism is essentially of two types. The first type is one in which an isofunctional protein such as haemoglobin is present in all individuals of the species and the individuals differ from one another by the amino-acid sequence in limited regions of the molecule. The second type of polymorphism is characterized by the presence or absence of a particular protein in different animals of the same species. We wish to propose here a general nomenclature for these two polymorphic states.
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CINADER, B., DUBISKI, S. & WARDLAW, A. Allotypy and Eniotypy. Nature 210, 1291–1292 (1966). https://doi.org/10.1038/2101291b0
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