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…
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Organic evolution
(biology) the sequence of events involved in the evolutionary development of a species or taxonomic group of organisms
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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.evolution resulting from small specific genetic changes that can lead to a new subspecies
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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Relationship by marriage (as between a husband and his wife's blood relations, or between a wife and her husband's blood relations); -…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: biology, sequence, events, involved, evolutionary.use of data (e.g. cytogenetic or biochemical) to assess taxonomic relations especially within an evolutionary framework
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: biology, sequence, events, involved, evolutionary.use of data (e.g. cytogenetic or biochemical) to assess taxonomic relations especially within an evolutionary framework
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: biology, sequence, events, involved, evolutionary.introduction during embryonic development of characters or structure not present in the earlier evolutionary history of the strain or…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: biology, sequence, events, involved, evolutionary.introduction during embryonic development of characters or structure not present in the earlier evolutionary history of the strain or…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: biology, sequence, events, involved, evolutionary.introduction during embryonic development of characters or structure not present in the earlier evolutionary history of the strain or…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: biology, sequence, events, involved, evolutionary.The act of developing or disclosing that which is unknown; a gradual unfolding process by which anything is developed, as a plan or me…
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Its definition shares important concepts with this word: biology, sequence, events, involved, evolutionary.The process of growing; the gradual increase of an animal or a vegetable body; the development from a seed, germ, or root, to full siz…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: biology, sequence, events, involved, evolutionary.introduction during embryonic development of characters or structure not present in the earlier evolutionary history of the strain or…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: biology, sequence, events, involved, evolutionary.Modified evolution, in which nonprimitive characters make their appearance in consequence of a secondary adaptation of the embryo to t…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: biology, sequence, events, involved, evolutionary.The rank, quality, state, or attributes of a king; royal authority; sovereign power; rule; dominion; monarchy.
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