{"id":48099,"date":"2024-10-06T19:11:17","date_gmt":"2024-10-06T19:11:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/?p=48099"},"modified":"2024-10-06T19:11:17","modified_gmt":"2024-10-06T19:11:17","slug":"biology-evolution-polymorphism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/biology-evolution-polymorphism\/","title":{"rendered":"Biology: evolution: polymorphism"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2>Tutoring biology, terms come up. The tutor mentions polymorphism.<\/h2>\n<p>\nIn comp-sci circles, you might hear about polymorphism connected with object oriented programming. Yet, polymorphism is also a thing in genetics.<\/p>\n<p>\nPolymorphism, in genetics, refers to the idea that a given sequence of DNA has potential variability. From DNA variability, physical variability can result, so every point of physical difference among humans can be traced back to one or several polymorphisms in the human genome.<\/p>\n<p>\nSource:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.genome.gov\/genetics-glossary\/Polymorphism\">genome.gov<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pmc\/articles\/PMC4347471\/\">ncbi.nlm.nih.gov<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.genome.gov\/genetics-glossary\/Genome\">genome.gov<\/a><\/p>\nJack of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\">Oracle Tutoring by Jack and Diane,<\/a> Campbell River, BC.\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tutoring biology, terms come up. The tutor mentions polymorphism. In comp-sci circles, you might hear about polymorphism connected with object oriented programming. Yet, polymorphism is also a thing in genetics. Polymorphism, in genetics, refers to the idea that a given &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/biology-evolution-polymorphism\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Biology: evolution: polymorphism<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[219],"tags":[3367,3398],"class_list":["post-48099","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biology","tag-genetics","tag-polymorphism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48099","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48099"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48099\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48105,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48099\/revisions\/48105"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48099"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48099"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48099"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}