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WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024pol•y•mor•phism (pol′ē môr′fiz əm),USA pronunciation n. - Biology, Geneticsthe state or condition of being polymorphous.
- Crystallographycrystallization into two or more chemically identical but crystallographically distinct forms.
- Genetics, Biology, Developmental Biology[Biol.]the existence of an organism in several form or color varieties.
- Genetics, Developmental Biologythe presence of two or more distinct phenotypes in a population due to the expression of different alleles of a given gene, as human blood groups O, A, B, and AB.
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