Dimorphism

Template:Sister project Dimorphism or dimorphic may refer to:

Science

• Dimorphic root systems, plant roots with two distinctive forms for two separate functions
• Sexual dimorphism, a phenotypic difference between males and females of the same species
• Nuclear dimorphism, when a cell's nuclear apparatus is composed of two structurally and functionally differentiated types of nuclei
• Frond dimorphism, differing forms of fern fronds between the sterile and fertile fronds
• Phenotypic dimorphism, switching between two cell-types
  • Dimorphic fungi, fungi which undergo this type of switching
• Dimorphism (geology), the property of some substances to exist in two distinct crystalline forms

Mathematics

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

See also

• Polymorphism (disambiguation)
• Monomorphic (disambiguation)