In biology, polymorphism is the occurrence of two or more clearly different morphs or forms, also referred to as alternative phenotypes, in the population...

strand conformation polymorphism analysis. A polymorphism can be any sequence difference. Examples include: Single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) are a single...

type theory, polymorphism is the use of a single symbol to represent multiple different types. In object-oriented programming, polymorphism is the provision...

Look up polymorphism, polymorph, polymorphic, polymorphous, or polymorphy in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Polymorphism, polymorphic, polymorph, polymorphous...

In biology, polymorphism is the occurrence of two or more clearly different forms or phenotypes in a population of a species. Different types of polymorphism...

C1236T polymorphism changes a GGC codon to GGT at amino acid position 412 of the polypeptide (both encode glycine) and the C3435T polymorphism changes...

product of both genetics and environmental factors. An example of sexual polymorphism determined by environmental conditions exists in the red-backed fairywren...

biology, restriction fragment length polymorphism (RFLP) is a technique that exploits variations in homologous DNA sequences, known as polymorphisms,...

species, the species is called polymorphic. A well-documented example of polymorphism is Labrador Retriever coloring; while the coat color depends on many...

Biology portal Breed Cultivar in botany Ecotype Form (botany) Form (zoology) Glossary of scientific naming Landrace Phenotype Polymorphism (biology)...

more technical example to illustrate genotype is the single-nucleotide polymorphism or SNP. A SNP occurs when corresponding sequences of DNA from different...

balanced genetic polymorphism and not, as originally supposed, a case of nascent sympatric speciation. The selection maintaining the polymorphism maximises the...

In population genetics, a protected polymorphism is a mechanism that maintains multiple alleles at a certain locus. In detail, any of the several alleles...

In evolutionary biology, mimicry in plants is where a plant organism evolves to resemble another organism physically or chemically, increasing the mimic's...

Many types of polymorphism can be seen in the insect order Lepidoptera. Polymorphism is the appearance of forms or "morphs" differing in color and number...

In biology, taxonomy (from Ancient Greek τάξις (taxis) 'arrangement', and -νομία (-nomia) 'method') is the scientific study of naming, defining (circumscribing)...

Sequence Length Polymorphisms (SSLPs) are used as genetic markers with polymerase chain reaction (PCR). An SSLP is a type of polymorphism: a difference...

Evolutionary biology is the subfield of biology that studies the evolutionary processes (natural selection, common descent, speciation) that produced the...

In evolutionary biology, mimicry is an evolved resemblance between an organism and another object, often an organism of another species. Mimicry may evolve...

are closely related to morphs. In the context of evolutionary biology, genetic polymorphism is the occurrence in the equilibrium of two or more distinctly...

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biologists for explanation. Most posit balancing selection (see polymorphism (biology)), which is any natural selection process whereby no single allele...

Ecophenotypic variation ("ecophenotype") refers to phenotypical variation as a function of life station. In wide-ranging species, the contributions of...

coined the phrase "survival of the fittest" in his 1864 work Principles of Biology to characterise what Charles Darwin had called natural selection. The British-Indian...

by parasitic nematode worms of the genus Mermis. Mermithergate Polymorphism (biology) Csősz, S.; Majoros, G. (2009-02-01). "Ontogenetic origin of mermithogenic...

parts according to its wavelength: a form of dichroism A form of polymorphism (biology), typical in sexual dimorphism, in which two phenotypes have different...

genetic variant Copy-number variation Variant (biology) Genetic variation (disambiguation) Polymorphism (biology), the effect of genetic variants: a range...

phylogenetics – phylogeny – phylogenetic tree – Pikaia – Plant evolution – polymorphism (biology) – population – population bottleneck – population dynamics – population...

"Phylogeography of red deer (Cervus elaphus): Analysis of MtDNA cytochrome b polymorphism" Biology Bulletin Vol. 39, No. 4 (July 2012), pp 323-330 doi:10.1134/S1062359012040048...

Pleomorphism is a term used in histology and cytopathology to describe variability in the size, shape and staining of cells and/or their nuclei. Several...