The act of unfolding or unrolling; hence, in the process of growth; development; as, the evolution of a flower from a bud, or an anima…
Used in the same subject area: Evolution, Biology, Taxonomy systematics.Microevolution
evolution resulting from small specific genetic changes that can lead to a new subspecies
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(biology) the sequence of events involved in the evolutionary development of a species or taxonomic group of organisms
Used in the same subject area: Evolution, Biology, Taxonomy systematics.Alt. of Phylogeny
Used in the same subject area: Evolution, Biology, Taxonomy systematics.The history of genealogical development; the race history of an animal or vegetable type; the historic exolution of the phylon or trib…
Used in the same subject area: Evolution, Biology, Taxonomy systematics.the evolution of a biological species
Used in the same subject area: Evolution, Biology, Taxonomy systematics.A distorted image.
Used in the same subject area: Evolution, Biology, Taxonomy systematics.A distorted or monstrous projection or representation of an image on a plane or curved surface, which, when viewed from a certain poin…
Used in the same subject area: Evolution, Biology, Taxonomy systematics.the evolution or genesis of the human race
Used in the same subject area: Evolution, Biology, Taxonomy systematics.The science or study of human generation, or the origin and development of man.
Used in the same subject area: Evolution, Biology, Taxonomy systematics.the appearance of entirely new properties at certain critical stages in the course of evolution
Used in the same subject area: Evolution, Biology, Taxonomy systematics.evolution on a large scale extending over geologic era and resulting in the formation of new taxonomic groups
Used in the same subject area: Evolution, Biology, Taxonomy systematics.A group of individuals ranked together as possessing common characteristics; as, the different classes of society; the educated class;…
Used in the same subject area: Biology, Taxonomy systematics.The collective body of persons who live in one house, and under one head or manager; a household, including parents, children, and ser…
Used in the same subject area: Biology, Taxonomy systematics.A suffix used to denote in the form / shape of, resembling, etc.; as, valiform; oviform.
Used in the same subject area: Biology, Taxonomy systematics.(biology) an artificial taxonomic category for organisms of which the true relationships are obscure; ranked between order and genus
Used in the same subject area: Biology, Taxonomy systematics.an artificial taxonomic category established on the basis of morphological resemblance for organisms of obscure true relationships esp…
Used in the same subject area: Biology, Taxonomy systematics.A class of objects divided into several subordinate species; a class more extensive than a species; a precisely defined and exactly di…
Used in the same subject area: Biology, Taxonomy systematics.Alt. of Monotypic
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Alt. of Baltimore oriole
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: evolution, resulting, small, specific, genetic.A common American bird (Icterus galbula), named after Lord Baltimore, because its colors (black and orange red) are like those of his…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: evolution, resulting, small, specific, genetic.Any instrument showing the changes in the weight of the atmosphere; also, less appropriately, any instrument that indicates -or foresh…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: evolution, resulting, small, specific, genetic.That branch of science which treats of the composition of substances, and of the changes which they undergo in consequence of alterati…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: evolution, resulting, small, specific, genetic.(genetics) any event that changes genetic structure; any alteration in the inherited nucleic acid sequence of the genotype of an organ…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: evolution, resulting, small, specific, genetic.a specific sequence of three adjacent nucleotides on a strand of DNA or RNA that specifies the genetic code information for synthesizi…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: evolution, resulting, small, specific, genetic.Set right, or made straight; hence, conformable to truth, rectitude, or propriety, or to a just standard; not faulty or imperfect; fre…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: evolution, resulting, small, specific, genetic.Reciprocal relation; corresponding similarity or parallelism of relation or law; capacity of being converted into, or of giving place…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: evolution, resulting, small, specific, genetic.Obtained by derivation; derived; not radical, original, or fundamental; originating, deduced, or formed from something else; secondary…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: evolution, resulting, small, specific, genetic.To free from that which infolds or envelops; to unfold; to lay open by degrees or in detail; to make visible or known; to disclose; to…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: evolution, resulting, small, specific, genetic.The act of differentiating.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: evolution, resulting, small, specific, genetic.a genetic abnormality resulting in short stature
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