genetic individual

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genetic
adjective
uk
/dʒəˈnet.ɪk/us
/dʒəˈnet̬.ɪk/
belonging or relating to genes (= parts of the DNA in cells) received by each animal or plant from ...
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individual
noun[C]
uk
/ˌɪn.dɪˈvɪdʒ.u.əl/us
/ˌɪn.dəˈvɪdʒ.u.əl/
a single person or thing, especially when compared to the group or set to which ...
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(Definition ofgeneticandindividualfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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What may appear to be separate plants are actually all rosettes belonging to onegeneticindividual, as the plant reproduces vegetatively.
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During the latter it produces more aboveground stems from its rootstock, sometimes creating a population of many plants which are actually onegeneticindividual.
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Many clumps containing hundreds of stems may all belong to a singlegeneticindividual.
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It spreads via long rhizomes; what appear to be individual plants may be a number of clumps that arise from a singlegeneticindividual.
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It is difficult to count or estimate the number of plants because many clumps of stems can belong to onegeneticindividual.
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Because the plant is colonial, with what appear to be several plants actually being parts of onegeneticindividual, populations are very small, sometimes containing fewer than five true individuals.
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Furthermore, the plant often reproduces vegetatively via rhizome; what appears to be a large stand of a great many plants may truly be onegeneticindividualand its clones.
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Although each lichen thallus generally appears homogeneous, some evidence seems to suggest that the fungal component may consist of more than onegeneticindividualof that species.
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An individual infected plant will generally bear only a singlegeneticindividualclavicipitaceous symbiont, so the plant-fungus system constitutes a genetic unit called a symbiotum (pl. symbiota).
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Today there are perhaps 20 populations remaining, but some of these may have very few genetic individuals because the species is clonal, with many cloned plants attached by one rhizome.
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