What is a cline?

Answer 1

1. Biology. the gradual change in certain characteristics exhibited by members of a series of adjacent populations of organisms of the same species.
2. Linguistics. (in systemic linguistics) a scale of continuous gradation; continuum.
A gradual change in a character or feature across the distributional range of a species or population, usually correlated with an environmental or geographic transition.
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A gradual change in an inherited characteristic across the geographic range of a species, usually correlated with an environmental transition such as altitude, temperature, or moisture. For example, the body size in a species of warm-blooded animals tends to be larger in cooler climates (a latitudinal cline), while the flowering time of a plant may tend to be later at higher altitudes (an altitudinal cline). In species in which the gene flow between adjacent populations is high, the cline is typically smooth, whereas in populations with restricted gene flow the cline usually occurs as a series of relatively abrupt changes from one group to the next.

Answer 2

A cline is a gradual change over time or space, just like everyone else has said.

For an example, look at skin color worldwide. Skin color of people in the tropics (say, Africa) is pretty dark. As you get further from the equator, skin color gradually lightens until you reach, say, Norway, where people are really really light.

Clines often illustrate population movements. For example, there is a cline in blood type B around the world. A lot of people in central Asia have blood type B. As you move further from central Asia, fewer and fewer people have blood type B, until, when you get to places like America and Australia, almost no one has it. This is because the people who carried blood type B moved all over Europe and Asia, but never made it to Australia.

Answer 3

Yeah, like they said. Look at the horizontal stripes in the Grand Canyon. These are clines. Some are thermo-clines and the animals have adapeted a niche in each cline.

Answer 4

Definitions of 'cline' (klīn) - 1 definition - The American Heritage® Dictionary

cline (n.) A gradual change in a character or feature across the distributional range of a species or population, usually correlated with an environmental or geographic transition.

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Answer 5

A cline is a series of contiguous populations that exhibit gradual and continuous change of character in response to some environmental gradient.

Answer 6

It's what you do before you re-cline

Answer 7

Crazy

Answer 8

Gradual changes through time

Answer 9

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