Concept cluster: Biology > Evolution
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(biology) foreign (originating elsewhere)
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Relating to a different species
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(biology, medicine, rare) Synonym of heterotopia
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Relating to anthropogenetics
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(systematics) A derived characteristic of a clade. Any feature novel to a species and its descendants.
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biogenesis
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Relating to biphenotypy
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(genetics) An evolutionary splitting event in which each branch and its smaller branches forms a clade
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Relating to diphenism
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(biology) The morphology of an organism that has been affected by its environment.
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By endosymbiosis.
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The way in which something develops as a result of its environment.
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Relating to generativism.
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Relating to genethlialogy.
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In a genic manner; on or relating to a gene.
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(biology) Antagonism between different species in a shared environment.
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A form of heterosis in which the resulting hybrid has superior characteristics to its parents
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(biology, botany) The state of being heteroblastic
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(microbiology) Pertaining to antibodies that react to a wide variety of antigens.
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The condition of an organism that produces heterogametes.
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Of or relating to heterogamy.
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(biology) The state of conjugating gametes that are different in size, structure and function.
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(biology) heterogenesis
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(botany) Characterized by heterogony
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(biology) Having the potential to develop into different forms.
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(biology) Of, or relating to different species
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Either of two or more heterologous organisms
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Of or relating to heteromorphosis.
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(biology, of parts of an organism) Differing in development or in specialization.
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The condition of being heteroplasmic
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The condition of being heteropodous
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Related to two separate species (in any sense)
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(systematics) Of or belonging to a different species.
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A hybrid organism of this kind.
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(ecology) Occurring in different habitats.
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Relating to or characterised by a state of hexasomy.
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(biology) Describing a three-dimensional culture of a single cell type
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Similarity; resemblance.
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Of or pertaining to homeosis
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The state of being homoblastic.
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(biology) The homology of metameres.
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(rare) Community of ancestry or origin.
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Alternative form of homeosis [(pathology) The formation of a normal plant or animal structure or organ in place of another at an abnormal site; the transformation of one body part to another.]
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Alternative form of homeotic [Of or pertaining to homeosis]
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(genetics) Synonym of allogeneic
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(biology) A method of reproduction in which the parents and offspring are alike.
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Alternative form of homeosis [(pathology) The formation of a normal plant or animal structure or organ in place of another at an abnormal site; the transformation of one body part to another.]
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Something homologous; a homologous organ or part, chemical compound or chromosome.
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(biology) The homology of parts arranged on transverse axes.
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Alternative form of homoplasy [(evolutionary theory) A correspondence between the parts or organs of different species acquired as the result of parallel evolution or convergence.]
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(biology) Homoplastic.
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Relating to, or showing, homoplasy.
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(biology) The formation of homologous tissues.
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(evolutionary theory) A correspondence between the parts or organs of different species acquired as the result of parallel evolution or convergence.
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(botany) The condition of being homostylous
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(biology) Relating to homotaxis.
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Obsolete form of homeoplastic. [(pathology) Resembling the tissue from or in which the thing to which the term is applied is formed.]
n
Obsolete form of homeoplasty. [Transplantation of biological tissue from one part of an individual between other individuals belonging to the same species.]
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Alternative form of interparalog [(genetics) Between paralogs]
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(biology) Similarity in development.
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The condition of being isogenic.
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(biology) the similarity in form of organisms, which may be due to convergent evolution or shared genetic background, e.g. an algae species in which the haploid and diploid life stages are indistinguishable based on morphology.
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(biology) Alternative form of isomorphism [(biology) the similarity in form of organisms, which may be due to convergent evolution or shared genetic background, e.g. an algae species in which the haploid and diploid life stages are indistinguishable based on morphology.]
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In terms of karyomorphology.
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monogenic
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(biology) Relating to monogenesis.
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morphogenetic
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morphological and molecular
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(biology) A biovar that has a distinct morphology; a morphotype
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Of or pertaining to multiple antibiotics
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Relating to multiple cytokines
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Relating to, or composed of multiple serotypes
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Relating to mutasynthesis.
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A newly-formed hybrid, typically of a crop plant
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(taxonomy) Having few species included.
adv
By means of oncogenetics
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orthogenesis
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(biology) A paralogous relationship
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Alternative form of pathophenotypic [(genetics) Relating to a pathophenotype]
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Relating to pathotypes
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(genetics, biology) Living in overlapping territories without interbreeding.
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Relating to a phenogenotype
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(genetics) Relating to a phenogram
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Relating to phenomes.
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Of or pertaining to a phenotype.
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The condition of being phylogenic; a specific collection of phylogenic characteristics
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Alternative form of pleomorphism [(biology) the occurrence of multiple structural forms during the life cycle of an organism]
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Alternative form of pleiotropic [Of or pertaining to pleiotropy.]
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of, related to, or exhibiting pleomorphism
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(biology) Of or pertaining to polygenesis; polyphyletic.
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of or pertaining to polygenesis
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(biology) A hybrid whose parents differ by four pairs of contrasting Mendelian characters.
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spatial and genetic
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Happening at the same time as diagenesis
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Descent from a common ancestor.
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(cybernetics) Setting goals for itself
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By means of meiosis
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(biology) The coexistence among individuals of the same species of three distinct forms, not generally connected by intermediate gradations.
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(geology) An allotriomorph.

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