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A process used with fats and oils which may form different crystal types [with the same chemical/molecular structure] depending upon the cooling conditions.
Ãâó: webexhibits.org/butter/glossary-pr.html
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| polymorphism |
the simultaneous occurrence in the population of genomes showing allelic variations (eg as seen in alleles producing different phenotypes)
Ãâó: www.cardiogenetics.org/glossary.asp
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| polymorphism |
Genetic trait for which multiple alleles exist with appreciable frequency in the population.
Ãâó: www.understandingnf1.org/glossary/
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| polymorphism |
A trait of an organism that is found in more than one state in a population. Also used for the existence of different forms of a gene in a population. For example, one well known polymorphism of color vision is the existence of both red-green dichromats and normal trichromats in the human population.
Ãâó: tigger.uic.edu/~hilbert/Glossary.html
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| polymorphic |
a locus with a different allele that occurs at a frequency of more than 5%. ie, cannot be maintained by mutation
Ãâó: 137.122.151.29/BIO1120/Includes/Glossary.htm
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