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What does monomorphic mean?

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Adjective
  1. having or existing in a single shape or form
  2. (genetics) invariant across a species
  3. (programming) taking only a single data type
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There were also large differences between populations in diversity, some of the populations being monomorphic and some polymorphic.
The house wren is a small, sexually monomorphic and monochromatic migratory songbird that breeds throughout much of North America.
Siberian jays are sexually monomorphic with a substantial overlap in size between sexes.
The black guillemot is a sexually monomorphic seabird that exhibits marked interpair variation in a number of breeding parameters.
Molecular sexing can provide an added benefit, especially for sexually monomorphic species.
In each case, interbreeding between the uniformly coloured monomorphic and sexually distinct dimorphic populations is limited.

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