polymorphism

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The researchers found that the anemones' color variation, or polymorphism, is controlled by different versions of a single fluorescent protein gene.

From Science Daily • Mar. 11, 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

Pol′ymorph, an organism showing polymorphism: a substance that crystallises in two or more systems; Polymor′phism, the property of being polymorphous.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 3 of 4: N-R) by Various