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polimorfia • polimorfismo
The ability to assume different forms or shapes.
polimorfismo
The regular existence of two or more different genotypes within a given species or population; also, variability of amino acid sequences within a gene's protein.
Since 1990 they have found an entirely new role: they promise understanding of how and why our genes are all so different. They hold the key to human polymorphism.
Some polymorphisms can be quite stable – so stable that they span the change from an ancestral to a descendant species.
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