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.
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Polymorphism
/pɑliˈmɔɹfɪz(ə)m/
Synonyms for "polymorphism" (10 found)
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Closest matches (2)
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Related words (5)
Noun(2 words)
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2 entrieschemical phenomenonorganic phenomenon
Translations
16 translations across 13 languages.
Catalan
1 entries- polimorfisme noun (crystallography: ability of a material to exist in more than one form)
Dutch
1 entries- polymorfisme noun (crystallography: ability of a material to exist in more than one form)
Finnish
2 entries- polymorfia noun (crystallography: ability of a material to exist in more than one form)
- polymorfismi noun (crystallography: ability of a material to exist in more than one form)
French
1 entries- polymorphisme noun (crystallography: ability of a material to exist in more than one form)
Greek
1 entries- πολυμορφισμός noun (crystallography: ability of a material to exist in more than one form)
Icelandic
2 entries- fjölbreytni noun (crystallography: ability of a material to exist in more than one form)
- fjölbrigðni noun (crystallography: ability of a material to exist in more than one form)
Italian
1 entries- polimorfismo noun (crystallography: ability of a material to exist in more than one form)
Japanese
2 entries- 同質異像 noun (crystallography: ability of a material to exist in more than one form)
- 多形 noun (crystallography: ability of a material to exist in more than one form)
Kazakh
1 entries- полиморфизм noun (crystallography: ability of a material to exist in more than one form)
Polish
1 entries- polimorfizm noun (crystallography: ability of a material to exist in more than one form)
Portuguese
1 entries- polimorfismo noun (crystallography: ability of a material to exist in more than one form)
Serbo-Croatian
1 entries- polimorfizam noun (crystallography: ability of a material to exist in more than one form)
Ukrainian
1 entries- поліморфі́зм noun (crystallography: ability of a material to exist in more than one form)
Sample sentences
2 total sentences available.
Some polymorphisms can be quite stable – so stable that they span the change from an ancestral to a descendant species.
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