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Polymorphism   Listen
noun
Polymorphism  n.  
1.
(Crystallog.) Same as Pleomorphism.
2.
(Biol.)
(a)
The capability of assuming different forms; the capability of widely varying in form.
(b)
Existence in many forms; the coexistence, in the same locality, of two or more distinct forms independent of sex, not connected by intermediate gradations, but produced from common parents.





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"Polymorphism" Quotes from Famous Books



... day. I wonder whether we shall ever be public combatants; anyhow, I congratulate myself in a most unfair advantage of you, viz., in having extracted more facts and views from you than from any one other person. I daresay your explanation of polymorphism on volcanic islands may be the right one; the reason I am curious about it is, the fact of the birds on the Galapagos being in several instances very fine-run species—that is, in comparing them, not so much one with another, as with their ...
— More Letters of Charles Darwin - Volume I (of II) • Charles Darwin


Words linked to "Polymorphism" :   chemistry, SNP, single nucleotide polymorphism, pleomorphism, dimorphism, genetic science, chemical phenomenon, biological science, chemical science, biology


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