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  • ÄäntäminenUS
  • UK:
    • IPA: /æt.əˈvɪs.tɪk/
  • US:
    • IPA: /æt.əˈvɪs.tɪk/
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Adjektiivit
1.biologia

Määritelmät

Adjektiivit

  1. (biology) Of the recurrence of a trait reappearing after an absence of one or more generations due to a chance recombination of genes.
  2. Of a throwback or exhibiting primitivism.
  3. Relating to earlier, more primitive behavior that returns after an absence.

Esimerkit

  • Although the heterozygote gives it an atavistic appearance, the gene is not atavistic.
  • Thus the gene which produced atavistic digits in the vigorous heterozygous pentadactyl condition is a lethal monster in the homozygous condition.
  • Reactivation of a dormant atavistic gene could account for the abnormal costocoracoid ligament in humans.
  • They made me feel that I was alive in the nineteenth century, a sort of atavistic remnant, a romantic shred…
  • The true perversion took place only in the privacy of her mind — the way she imagined an atavistic macho atop her when engaged in a mandatory contribution to the fetus-banks with some cretinous inept breeder…
  • Because I am atavistic enough to believe that drawing is the basic language of the illustrator, even as words comprise the basic language of the writer…

Taivutusmuodot

Komparatiivimore atavistic
Superlatiivimost atavistic