单词	preadapt
释义	preadapt /ˌpriːəˈdapt / verb [with object] Biology Adapt (an organism or part of an organism) for life in conditions it has yet to encounter: the insulation of marine mammals in temperate seas preadapts them for polar seas... Future research should focus on such traits of cowbird relatives and on how these traits preadapted a particular lineage to become parasites. Such genes would, therefore, appear to be preadapted to regulate the expression of the related gene through an antisense mechanism; this is a function that is entirely unlike that of the original gene. Because all the known theropods were terrestrial predators, he suggested that the flight feathers must have elongated in the context of insect traps and were later preadapted for flight.
随便看	prefixion prefix language prefixoid prefix-pronominal prefixture pre-flame pre-flash preflight prefloration prefocus prefocusing prefocussing prefogged prefogging prefoliation preform preformant preformation preformationism preformationist preformative preformer preformism preformist pre-Freudian

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