atavisms

atavisms

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• n.【醫】隔代遺傳；呈現返祖現象的人

詞形變化

復數：atavisms  

英漢解釋

n.	1. 【醫】隔代遺傳,返祖(現象),返祖性 2. 呈現返祖現象的人

英英解釋

n.	1. the recurrence of a genetically controlled feature in an organism after it has been absent for several generations, usually because of an accidental recombination of genes 2. an organism showing atavism

例句

Horner's plan, in essence, is to start off by creating experimental atavisms in the lab.

霍納的計劃，實質上是從在實驗室里制造試驗性的返祖開始。

Rather than rogue cells gone berserk, cancers may be the foot soldiers of ages-old atavisms

癌癥遠非瘋狂的流氓細胞，更像是古老返祖現象的步兵。