Dimorphism or dimorphic may refer to:
Science
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Dimorphic root systems, plant roots with two distinctive forms for two separate functions
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Sexual dimorphism
Sexual dimorphism is the condition where sexes of the same species exhibit different Morphology (biology), morphological characteristics, including characteristics not directly involved in reproduction. The condition occurs in most dioecy, di ...
, a phenotypic difference between males and females of the same species
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Nuclear dimorphism Nuclear dimorphism is a term referred to the special characteristic of having two different kinds of nuclei in a cell. There are many differences between the types of nuclei. This feature is observed in protozoan ciliates, like ''Tetrahymena'', an ...
, when a cell's nuclear apparatus is composed of two structurally and functionally differentiated types of nuclei
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Frond dimorphism
Frond dimorphism refers to a difference in ferns between the fertile and sterile fronds. Since ferns, unlike flowering plants, bear spores on the leaf blade itself, this may affect the form of the frond itself. In some species of ferns, there is v ...
, differing forms of fern fronds between the sterile and fertile fronds
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Phenotypic dimorphism, switching between two cell-types
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Dimorphic fungi
A dimorphic fungus is a fungus that can exist in the form of both mold and yeast
Yeasts are eukaryotic, single-celled microorganisms classified as members of the fungus kingdom (biology), kingdom. The first yeast originated hundreds of mill ...
, fungi which undergo this type of switching
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Dimorphism (geology), the property of some substances to exist in two distinct crystalline forms
Mathematics
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Semilinear map In linear algebra, particularly projective geometry, a semilinear map between vector spaces ''V'' and ''W'' over a field ''K'' is a function that is a linear map "up to a twist", hence ''semi''-linear, where "twist" means " field automorphism of ''K ...
, a homomorphism between modules, paired with the associated homomorphism between the respective base rings
See also
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Polymorphism (disambiguation)
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Monomorphic (disambiguation)
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