{"id":8787,"date":"2019-05-22T16:11:30","date_gmt":"2019-05-22T16:11:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/polymorphism\/"},"modified":"2019-05-22T16:11:30","modified_gmt":"2019-05-22T16:11:30","slug":"polymorphism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/polymorphism\/","title":{"rendered":"Polymorphism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In genetics, it refers to the co-existence of a number of distinctly different types in a population. &nbsp;An important category of discontinuous variation within species, it consists of two sorts:&nbsp;genetic polymorphism and non-genetic polymorphism, although in practice it is difficult to distinguish between them. &nbsp;An example of the former is human blood groups, and caste systems of social insects such as ants in the case of the latter&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>See <a href=\"heterogeneity\">Heterogeneity<\/a>, Human Genome Project, <a href=\"population_-biology_and_ecology-\">Population (biology and ecology)<\/a>, <a href=\"theory_of_balanced_polymorphisms\">Theory of balanced polymorphisms<\/a>, <a href=\"theory_of_natural_selection\">Theory of natural selection<\/a><\/p>\n<p><\/body><\/html><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In genetics, it refers to the co-existence of a number of distinctly different types in a population. &nbsp;An important category of discontinuous variation within species, it consists of two sorts:&nbsp;genetic polymorphism and non-genetic polymorphism, although in practice it is difficult to distinguish between them. &nbsp;An example of the former is human blood groups, and caste &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/polymorphism\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Polymorphism&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2],"class_list":["post-8787","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-glossary","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8787","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8787"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8787\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8787"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8787"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}