polymorphism
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多态性,多形性,多样性,多态现象
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Definitions
n.名词 noun
- 1
- : the state or condition of being polymorphous.
- : Crystallography. crystallization into two or more chemically identical but crystallographically distinct forms.
- : Biology. the existence of an organism in several form or color varieties as a result of discontinuous variation.
- : Genetics. the presence of two or more distinct phenotypes in a population due to the expression of different alleles of a given gene, as human blood groups O, A, B, and AB.
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Examples
We now understand the process by which a polymorphic race maintains its polymorphism.
Four days later, after the fourth ecdysis, the dimorphism becomes a polymorphism.
On these grounds I designate the phenomenon as polymorphism, although it may not yet have reached, as such, its sharpest limits.
It is chiefly amongst the microscopic species that polymorphism has been determined.
This system of reproduction is again noticed more in detail in the chapter on polymorphism.
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