Question

What is an allele and how is it different from a trait?

Answer 1

each of two or more alternative forms of a gene that arise by mutation and are found at the same place on a chromosome is an Allele

Alleles are the alternative forms of one gene, multiple genes lie on one chromosome, and trait is what we finally see as its output that is it's phenotype. ... Trait is a character or expression which is carried by an allele in a form of set of genes. Basically gene is very faundamental unit,its a sequence of DNA