cline

5 letters in word "cline": C E I L N.

Anagrams of cline:

• incle

Words found within cline:

ceil cel ciel cine el en ice in lei li lice lie lien lin line ne nice nie nil

• Definitions:
• a series of contiguous populations that exhibit gradual and continuous change of character in response to some environmental gradient.
• A gradual and sequential change of characters without significant break such as would justify division into separate species.
• (cline) (kl?n) [Gr. klinein to cause to slope] a continuous series of differences in structure or function exhibited by the members of a species along a line extending from one part of their range to another.
• Change in population characteristics over a geographical area, usually related to a corresponding environmental change.
• A gradual morphological or physiological change in a group of related organisms across their range, usually associated with environmental or geographic transition.
• A variational trend in space that is found in a poulation, or a series of populations, of a species.
• A gradual change in an allele frequency or in the mean of a character over a geographic transect.
• or Clinal belt. This is a region of overlap in the geographical ranges of two species or sub-species capable of inter-breeding. Often there is a gradient in the physical features of the species across the belt due to hybridization. ...
• American geneticist who succeeded in transferring a functioning gene from one mouse to another (born in 1934)
• In population genetics, a cline is a gradual change of a character or feature (phenotype) in a species over a geographical area, often as a result of environmental heterogeneity. ...

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