Dimorphism

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Dimorphism or dimorphic may refer to:

Science

  • Dimorphic root systems, plant roots with two distinctive forms for two separate functions
  • Sexual dimorphism, a phenotypic difference between males and females of the same species
  • Nuclear dimorphism, when a cell's nuclear apparatus is composed of two structurally and functionally differentiated types of nuclei
  • Frond dimorphism, differing forms of fern fronds between the sterile and fertile fronds
  • Phenotypic dimorphism, switching between two cell-types
    • Dimorphic fungi, fungi which undergo this type of switching
  • Dimorphism (geology), the property of some substances to exist in two distinct crystalline forms

Mathematics

  • Semilinear map, a homomorphism between modules, paired with the associated homomorphism between the respective base rings

See also

  • Polymorphism (disambiguation)
  • Monomorphic (disambiguation)
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