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hemiplasy

hemiplasy noun: a condition similar to homoplasy that is the topological discordance between a gene tree and a species tree attributable to lineage sorting of genetic polymorphisms that were retained across successive nodes in a species tree.

Noun

hemiplasy (uncountable)

  1. A condition similar to homoplasy that is the topological discordance between a gene tree and a species tree attributable to lineage sorting of genetic polymorphisms that were retained across successive nodes in a species tree

Questions about hemiplasy

What does hemiplasy mean?
Hemiplasy means a condition similar to homoplasy that is the topological discordance between a gene tree and a species tree attributable to lineage sorting of genetic polymorphisms that were retained across successive nodes in a species tree.
What part of speech is hemiplasy?
Hemiplasy is a noun.

Words near hemiplasy in the dictionary

  1. hemiphasmidic
  2. hemiphosphorylated
  3. hemiphractid
  4. hemiphractids
  5. hemiplasic
  6. hemiplasy
  7. hemiplegia
  8. hemiplegias
  9. hemiplegic
  10. hemiplegics
  11. hemiplegy

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