cline

(klīn)

[From Greek klīnein, to lean.]

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A cline refers to geographic variation due to a gradient of climatic features. For example, a north-south gradient may include a range of temperature and a range of plant sizes, with taller plants at the southern end and shorter plants at the northern end.

Tutor's tip: In this "clime" (climate), a "cline" (gradual change in organisms of similar species often due to environmental or geographic changes) will occur as one continues the mountainous "climb" (to go up).

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• Genetics, Heredity, and Evolution - cline: pattern of gradual change in character across species’ geographic range

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Cline may refer to:

Scientific concepts related to change

• Cline (biology)
• Cline (hydrology)
• Cline (linguistics)
• Cline (mathematics)
• Clinal, in alkane stereochemistry, a torsion angle between 30° and 150° or between –30° and –150°

Other

• Cline, generalised circle, in geometry
• "Cline" the NATO reporting name for the Antonov An-32
• Cline (surname)
• Clinitrachus argentatus, known as Cline in the UK

See also

• Clyne (disambiguation)
• Kline (disambiguation)
• Klein (disambiguation)

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