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polymorphism

[pol-ee-mawr-fiz-uhm] / ˌpɒl iˈmɔr fɪz əm /


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The researchers found gene variants that link colour polymorphism and potential adaptations to cold environment.

From Science Daily • Feb. 14, 2024

That third method, used in genealogical testing, is called single nucleotide polymorphism, and it looks at thousands of binding sites in DNA compared to the 25 to 30 sites an STR analyzes.

From Seattle Times • Jan. 11, 2023

If you were to look at sickle cell anemia, a disorder affecting hemoglobin produced in red blood cells, which technique would be the most useful in detecting polymorphism in a sample?

From Textbooks • Jun. 9, 2022

Some people have a polymorphism that instructs their body to create two of the same enzyme instead of just one.

From Salon • Oct. 10, 2021

We have reproduced De Bary’s life-history of this mould here, as an illustration of structure in the Mucedines, but hereafter we shall have to write of similar transformations when treating of polymorphism.

From Fungi: Their Nature and Uses by Cooke, M. C. (Mordecai Cubitt)