Meaning Of The Word Metamerism

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metamerism in American English
the type of isomerism in which chemical compounds have identical proportions of the same elements and the same molecular weight, but have radicals differing in type or position, with resulting differences in chemical properties
noun: division into metameres, the developmental process of somite formation

metamerism in British English
noun: the division of an animal into similar segments (metameres). In many vertebrates it is confined to the embryonic nervous and muscular systems

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