Polymorphic vs Microsatellite - What's the difference?
polymorphic | microsatellite |
relating to polymorphism (any sense), able to have several shapes or forms
* 1859, Charles Darwin, On the Origin of Species
* 1897, Grant Allen, An African Millionaire
* 1996 , Rod Ellis, Data abstraction and program design
(programming, of a function) able to take multiple data types
A miniature satellite
(genetics) Any of a group of polymorphic loci in DNA that consist of repeat units of just a few base pairs
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As an adjective polymorphic
is relating to polymorphism (any sense), able to have several shapes or forms.As a noun microsatellite is
a miniature satellite.polymorphic
English
Adjective
(-)- I refer to those genera which have sometimes been called "protean" or "polymorphic ," in which the species present an inordinate amount of variation; and hardly two naturalists can agree which forms to rank as species and which as varieties.
- Dr. Beddersley came -- a dapper little man, with pent-house eyebrows, and keen, small eyes, whom I suspected at sight of being Colonel Clay himself in another of his clever polymorphic embodiments.
- Polymorphic redefinition in C++ is achieved by the use of virtual functions.