specialization

Examples

• All

• In fact, they are cells that have pushed their specialization, such as oxygen transport, to the point of eliminating all the non-useful elements.

  Academic text (2013)

• As a result, amphibians face an increased risk of drying out and have evolved behavioral specializations for maintaining water balance on land.

  Academic text (2001)

• But these strides have come with the cost of greater specialization and limitations on the scope of the problems studied.

  Academic text (1997)

• Alternatively, if species have independently evolved the same habitat specializations, then they should not be closely related to each other.

  Academic text (2007)

• Environmental heterogeneity can also interact with selection to produce specialization, because different livelihood strategies are better suited to different conditions.

  Academic text (2013)

• The hoatzin's many oddities stem not from a primitive condition but from its specializations to a particular way of life.

  Academic text (1992)

• The Victorian haplochromines exhibit behavioral and dietary specializations comparable to those of the Malawian and Tanganyikan cichlids.

  Academic text (1992)

• Cell differentiation is like specialization, in which an existing cell takes on a new duty.

• The beginning of specialization: one siphon becomes a gut!

• "The fact that dolphins have this remarkable specialization shows that sleep must serve some essential function," Cirelli says.

Synonyms

D

differentiation

vsspecialization

• Specialized

5 6.2

A process where cells change to have a special shape and job in the body

is the process of adapting a part to perform one specific function

Antonyms

G

generalized

• Specialized

6.5

Not made for one job and able to work in many places

How Specialized

cell organelle

• Specialized

4.5

specialization

• Specialized

1 4.9

differentiation

• Specialized

5 6.2

stem cell

• Specialized

77 4.1

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology