polymorphism — 英語辞典

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1. The ability to assume different forms or shapes.

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2. 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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3. A feature pertaining to the dynamic treatment of data elements based on their type, allowing for a method to have several definitions.

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4. The property of certain typed formal systems of allowing for the use of type variables and binders/quantifiers over those type variables; likewise, the property of certain expressions (within such typed formal systems) of making use of at least one such typed variable.

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5. The ability of a solid material to exist in more than one form or crystal structure; pleomorphism.

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6. The regular existence of two or more different genotypes within a given species or population; also, variability of amino acid sequences within a gene's protein.

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   Since 1990 they have found an entirely new role: they promise understanding of how and why our genes are all so different. They hold the key to human polymorphism.

   Some polymorphisms can be quite stable – so stable that they span the change from an ancestral to a descendant species.

名詞

1. (genetics) the genetic variation within a population that natural selection can operate on

   上位語

   organic phenomenon

2. (chemistry) the existence of different kinds of crystal of the same chemical compound

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   pleomorphism

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   chemical phenomenon

3. (biology) the existence of two or more forms of individuals within the same animal species (independent of sex differences)

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   organic phenomenon