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co•ad•ap•ta•tion

Pronunciation: (kō"ad-up-tā'shun), [key]
—n.
1. Biol.the correlation of structural or behavioral characteristics in two or more interacting organisms in a community or organs in an organism resulting from progressive accommodation by natural selection.
2. Also called integration. Genetics.the accumulation in a population's gene pool of genes that interact by harmonious epistasis in the development of an organism.

Random House Unabridged Dictionary, Copyright © 1997, by Random House, Inc., on Infoplease.

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