atavism

['ætəvɪzəm]
['ætə,vɪzəm]
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中文释义

生 隔代遗传 返祖现象英释中释

英语释义

[生]隔代遗传, 返祖现象英释中释nthe recurrence in a plant or animal of certain primitive characteristics that were present in an ancestor but have not occurred in intermediate generations

相关例句

1 Together we developed the theory that cancer tumours are a type of atavism that appears in the adult form when something disrupts the silencing of ancestral genes..我们合作发展了肿瘤细胞是一种返祖现象这个理论,当远古基因的沉寂被扰乱时,返祖现象就会出现在成体型中。

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