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A Dictionary of Environment and Conservation (3 ed.)
... ( race ) A geographically isolated or physiologically distinct group within a species , which is capable of interbreeding with other members of the subspecies but rarely does so. See also cultivar ; variety...
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A Dictionary of Genetics (8 ed.)
... 1. a taxonomically recognized subdivision of a species. 2. geographically and/or ecologically defined subdivisions of a species with distinctive characteristics. See race...
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A Dictionary of Biology (8 ed.)
...subspecies A group of individuals within a species that breed more freely among themselves than with other members of the species and resemble each other in more characteristics. Reproductive isolation of a subspecies may become so extreme that a new species is formed ( see speciation ). Subspecies are sometimes given a third Latin name, e.g. the mountain gorilla, Gorilla gorilla beringei ( see also binomial nomenclature...
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A Dictionary of Psychology (4 ed.)
... n . In biology, a taxonomic group into which a species is divided, containing organisms that are genetically differentiable from other members of the same species by the relative frequencies of their polymorphic genes . Also called a microspecies, race , or variety...
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A Dictionary of Ecology (5 ed.)
... Technically, a race of a species that is allocated a Latin name. The number of races recognized within a species and the allocation of names to them is something of an arbitrary procedure. Systematic and phenotypic variations do occur within species, but there are no clear rules for identifying them as races or subspecies except that they must be ( a ) geographically distinct, ( b ) populations , not merely morphs, and ( c ) different to some degree from other geographic...
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A Dictionary of Plant Sciences (4 ed.)
... Technically, a race of a species that is allocated a Latin name. The number of races recognized within a species and the allocation of names to them is something of an arbitrary procedure. Systematic and phenotypic variations do occur within species, but there are no clear rules for identifying them as races or subspecies except that they must be ( a ) geographically distinct, ( b ) populations, not merely morphs, and ( c ) different to some degree from other geographic...
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A Dictionary of Zoology (5 ed.)
... Technically, a race of a species that is allocated a Latin name. The number of races recognized within a species and the allocation of names to them is somewhat arbitrary. Systematic and phenotypic variations do occur within species, but there are no clear rules for identifying them as races or subspecies except that they must be: ( a ) geographically distinct; ( b ) populations, not merely morphospecies ; and ( c ) different to some degree from other geographic...
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The New Oxford Dictionary for Scientific Writers and Editors (2 ed.)
... ( pl. subspecies ) Abbrev.: subsp. ( pl. subspp. ) A unit of biological classification ( see taxonomy ) that is a subdivision of a species. Names of subspecies are italicized, being printed in the form Corvus corone cornix , Corvus corone subsp. cornix , or C. c. cornix (esp. when discussing several subspecies of the same species). Adjectival form: subspecific...
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New Oxford Rhyming Dictionary (2 ed.)
... • biz , Cadíz, Cadiz, fizz, frizz, gee-whiz, his, is, jizz, Liz, Ms, phiz, quiz, squiz, swizz, tizz, viz, whizz, wiz, zizz • louis , Suez • scabies • Celebes , heebie-jeebies • showbiz • laches • Marches • breeches • Indies • undies • hafiz • Kyrgyz • Hedges • Bridges • Hodges • Judges • Rockies • walkies • Gillies , Scillies • pennies • Benares • Jefferies , Jeffreys • Canaries • Delores , Flores, furores • series • miniseries • Furies • congeries • Potteries • molasses • glasses • sunglasses • missus • suffix • falsies •...
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The New Testament Reference library
David Parker
The Oxford Illustrated History of the Bible
...Asiatic and the African. The details of his scheme have long proved unsatisfactory, but the concept has become basic. In particular, the recognition that different texts circulated in different parts of the early Christian world (perhaps the genetic comparison of a particular subspecies of plant or animal developing in a particular area will explain the idea) has been of great importance. The second area was the development of rules, ‘canons’, for determining how to choose between two or more variant readings. For example, Bengel articulated the rule that ‘the...
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