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Mullerian mimicry
A kind of mimicry in which two poisonous species evolve to look like one another.

Multifactorial or multigenic disorder
Genetic disorder resulting from the combined action of alleles of more than one gene (e.g., heart disease, neural tube defects, diabetes, and some cancers) and the environment. Hereditary patterns are usually more complex than those of single gene disorders.

Multifactorial inheritance

A pattern of inheritance exhibited by a number of conditions, such as heart disease, diabetes, and certain birth defects. Multiple genetic or non-genetic factors-not just one-are involved in causing a Multifactorial condition.

Multiplexing
A laboratory approach that performs multiple sets of reactions in parallel (simultaneously); greatly increasing speed and throughput.

Murray, Charles
An author and policy analyst who has written many controversial and influential books on social policy. He is coauthor with Richard J. Herrnstein of The Bell Curve: Intelligence and Class Structure in American Life (1994).

He has also written Losing Ground: American Social Policy 1950­1980 (1984), which argues for the abolishment of the welfare system, The Underclass Revisited (1999), and Income, Inequality and IQ (1998).

Murine
Organism in the genus Mus. A rat or mouse.

 

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