How to Use polymorphism in a Sentence

polymorphism

noun

• Some people have a polymorphism that instructs their body to create two of the same enzyme instead of just one.
  — C. Michael White, The Conversation, 4 Oct. 2021
• The campaign uses a technique called polymorphism to blast out hundreds of thousands of unique samples.
  — Dan Goodin, Ars Technica, 10 Dec. 2020
• Some of us have a polymorphism, a genetic variant that slows our metabolism for caffeine.
  — Dawn MacKeen, New York Times, 13 Feb. 2020
• Today, 'candidate gene' studies focusing on a single polymorphism, of which Blum et al.
  — Neuroskeptic, Discover Magazine, 5 July 2015
• But the presence of more than one color polymorphism, or ‘morph’, in a population is probably one of the most enigmatic of evolutionary questions.
  — Grrlscientist, Forbes, 26 Feb. 2024
• Each variant has a version (more precisely, one of the alleles in a single nucleotide polymorphism) associated with a small boost to the trait in question.
  — Charles Murray, WSJ, 27 Jan. 2020
• So far, 171 single-nucleotide gene polymorphisms (SNPs) linked to migraine have been discovered.
  — Brigid Dwyer, Verywell Health, 27 Feb. 2025
• When that happens, investigators may look at all the variations, or single nucleotide polymorphisms, that are in the DNA sample.
  — CBS News, 20 Feb. 2025
• The gene variants that link plumage color polymorphism are probably also linked to adaptations to extreme cold, despite less melanin pigmentation in the grey morph owls’ plumage reducing their ability to transform sunlight into heat.
  — Grrlscientist, Forbes, 26 Feb. 2024
• SNPs are single-nucleotide polymorphisms, or small variations in genetic code that can represent the basis for disease or health, presence or absence of a condition of some type or other.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 7 Nov. 2014
• The researchers examined whether there was a relation between the OXTR polymorphisms and the way the dogs interacted with people during the social tests.
  — Julie Hecht, Scientific American, 1 May 2017
• This unique combination allows the material to exhibit supramolecular polymorphism – the ability to form different assembly structures – triggered and controlled by light.
  — Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 17 Nov. 2025
• Using about 50 different variations — single-nucleotide polymorphisms (otherwise known as SNPs) — researchers created a risk score.
  — Aaron E. Carroll, New York Times, 12 Dec. 2016
• Abnormal changes in these base pairs, called single nucleotide polymorphisms, or SNPs, might be the root causes of most noninfectious human diseases, including cancer, diabetes, and cystic fibrosis.
  — Brian Alexander, WIRED, 1 June 2000
• The genetic differences picked out are often things called single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs), which are places in the genome where a lone pair of bases, the chemical letters in which genetic messages are written, can vary between individuals.
  — The Economist, 28 June 2018
• The technology scans the entire genome for single nucleotide polymorphisms, or SNPs—the spots where one person’s genome might have a T, while another’s has a C—for associations with human behaviors.
  — Eric Turkheimer, The Atlantic, 13 Oct. 2025
• This technique relies on datasets that compare single nucleotide polymorphisms—differences in DNA nucleotides that act as biological markers among individuals.
  — Lorraine Boissoneault, Smithsonian, 14 June 2017
• The majority of genetic tests available online look only at a select number of common genetic variables called single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs), along with some other markers of genetic variation.
  — WIRED, 21 Sep. 2023
• These SAPs occur because of a variation in an individual's DNA code, specifically a non-synonymous single nucleotide polymorphism, which changes one amino acid in the protein chain.
  — Abhimanyu Ghoshal, New Atlas, 20 Dec. 2025