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preadaptation

(prē′ăd-ăp-tā′shən, -əp-)
n.
1. A characteristic of an ancestral species or population that serves an adaptive though different function in a descendant species or population.
2. The ability of a characteristic to assume a new biological function without evolutionary modification.
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preadaptation

the possession by an organism of characteristics that permit a move into a new NICHE or habitat.
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The aligned sequences revealed that, at nucleotide positions 642 and 645, there were changes from C and A to T and G nucleotides in the sequences of preadaptation UPM04/190 parent virus, UPM190EP1, UPM190EP12, UPM190BGMP5, and UPM190BGMP10.
To study the preadaptation effect on cell survival under stress, aliquots of experimental culture were preincubated with 0.05, 0.25, and 0.5 mM [H.sub.2][O.sub.2] or 1%, 2.5%, and 5% ethanol at 28[degrees]C and pH 7.0 for 30 or 60 minutes, respectively.
In each trial during the preadaptation and postadaptation phases, the target spot randomly stepped left or right, initially from a central fixation position and subsequently from its previous target location on successive trials.
"'Preadaptation' is a term borrowed from evolutionary biology.
From the axiomatic point of view, mathematics appears thus as a storehouse of abstract forms--the mathematical structures; and it so happens--without our knowing how--that certain aspects of empirical reality fit themselves into these forms, as if through a kind of preadaptation. David Aubin (1997), a French cultural historian of science and mathematics, writing of the confluence of mathematics and structuralism in France documents how Andre Weil, one of the founders of Bourbaki, wrote an appendix for Levi-Strauss' Elementary Structures of Kinship and how Queneau's experimental literary group Oulipo explored the possibility of language directly inspired by Bourbaki.
Evolutionary response of predators to dangerous prey: Preadaptation and the evolution of tetrodotoxin resistance in garter snakes.
Lederhendler argues that cultural preadaptation arguments greatly understate the economic and cultural difficulties the immigrants faced.
The divide between Gould, Lewontin, and Dennett can be narrowed by the evolutionary concept of preadaptation. (91) Preadaptation is based on path dependency.
With the dominance of rice and high levels of preadaptation to floods, there is little that can be done to build flood resilience through adjustments in cropping patterns and farming practices.
* Adaptability--ability to learn, ability to change behavior based on learning, preadaptation (13)
A special preadaptation for migration is parthenogenesis within D.
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