Dimorphism or dimorphic may refer to:

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Dimorphic root system A dimorphic root system is a plant root system with two distinct root forms, which are adapted to perform different functions. One of the most common manifestations is in plants with both a taproot, which grows straight down to the water table, from ...

s, plant roots with two distinctive forms for two separate functions *

Sexual dimorphism Sexual dimorphism is the condition where the sexes of the same animal and/or plant species exhibit different morphological characteristics, particularly characteristics not directly involved in reproduction. The condition occurs in most ani ...

, a phenotypic difference between males and females of the same species *

Nuclear dimorphism Nuclear dimorphism is a term referred to the special characteristic of having two different kinds of nuclei in a cell. There are many differences between the types of nuclei. This feature is observed in protozoan ciliates, like ''Tetrahymena'', and ...

, when a cell's nuclear apparatus is composed of two structurally and functionally differentiated types of nuclei *

Frond dimorphism Frond dimorphism refers to a difference in ferns between the fertile and sterile fronds. Since ferns, unlike flowering plants, bear spores on the leaf blade itself, this may affect the form of the frond itself. In some species of ferns, there is v ...

, differing forms of fern fronds between the sterile and fertile fronds *

Phenotypic dimorphism Phenotypic switching is switching between multiple cellular morphologies. David R. Soll described two such systems: the first high frequency switching system between several morphological stages and a second high frequency switching system between ...

, switching between two cell-types **

Dimorphic fungi Dimorphic fungi are fungi that can exist in the form of both mold and yeast. This is usually brought about by change in temperature and the fungi are also described as thermally dimorphic fungi. An example is ''Talaromyces marneffei'', a human ...

, fungi which undergo this type of switching *

Dimorphism (geology) In materials science, polymorphism describes the existence of a solid material in more than one form or crystal structure. Polymorphism is a form of isomerism. Any crystalline material can exhibit the phenomenon. Allotropy refers to polymorphism ...

, the property of some substances to exist in two distinct crystalline forms

Mathematics

Semilinear map In linear algebra, particularly projective geometry, a semilinear map between vector spaces ''V'' and ''W'' over a field ''K'' is a function that is a linear map "up to a twist", hence ''semi''-linear, where "twist" means "field automorphism of ''K' ...

, a homomorphism between modules, paired with the associated homomorphism between the respective base rings

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