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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

quasispecies en · NOUN

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *kʷ- Proto-Indo-European *kʷís Proto-Italic *kʷis Proto-Indo-European *kʷ- Proto-Indo-European *kʷos Proto-Italic *kʷoi Latin quam Proto-Indo-European *sóder. Proto-Italic *sei Latin sī univ. Latin quasī̆bor. English quasi- English species English quasispecies From quasi- + species.

Meanings

  1. A group of organisms once (but no longer) thought to be a separate species (and sometimes given such a name)
  2. A group of similar nucleic acid molecules; a group of organisms (especially viruses) having such similar genomes.

Forms

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Relateds

subspecies · variety · cultivar · strain · infraspecific