Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Of or relating to characteristics of two or more species that have evolved through mutually beneficial interactions between the species.
- adjective Of or relating to alleles at two or more genetic loci that have become established because they are beneficial in combination with each other, but not with other alleles.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Mutually or reciprocally adapted: as, “coadapted pulp and tooth,”
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Adapted one to another.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective genetics Describing a
genetic adaptation that is the result ofbeneficial interactions between theorganisms of acommunity - adjective genetics Describing the associated interactions between
genes of differentloci
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Examples
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Director Edgar Wright, who coadapted the script from Bryan Lee O'Malley's comic-book series, utilizes just enough comic-book look (the visualizing of words for sounds, such as loose-floating type that says "Riiinnng," when the phone rings), then suddenly turns Scott's outlandish battles into martial-arts-centric videogame encounters.
Marshall Fine: HuffPost Review: Scott Pilgrim vs. the World 2010
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It is obvious to most people with a background in the biological sciences that even systems described in ID as irreducibly complex are just coadapted parts for which the scientific community has not figured out the complete evolutionary history.
Report on the U. Kentucky Law ID lectures - The Panda's Thumb 2006
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“Irreducible complexity” IC is a clever name for a natural thing - coadapted ‘parts’.
Report on the U. Kentucky Law ID lectures - The Panda's Thumb 2006
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“Irreducible complexity” IC is a clever name for a natural thing - coadapted ‘parts’.
Report on the U. Kentucky Law ID lectures - The Panda's Thumb 2006
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It is obvious to most people with a background in the biological sciences that even systems described in ID as irreducibly complex are just coadapted parts for which the scientific community has not figured out the complete evolutionary history.
Report on the U. Kentucky Law ID lectures - The Panda's Thumb 2006
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Genetic codes are generally coadapted with, or ‘frozen’ by, the protein-coding genes that they translate, and so cannot easily change by natural selection.
The standard genetic code enhances adaptive evolution of proteins - The Panda's Thumb 2006
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