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Random House Webster's College Dictionary

1. (n.) cline
the gradual change in certain characteristics exhibited by members of a series of adjacent populations of organisms of the same species.

Etymology: (1935–40; < Gk kl&imacracute;nein to lean¹)

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1. (noun) Cline, Martin Cline
American geneticist who succeeded in transferring a functioning gene from one mouse to another (born in 1934)

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