A biological or evolutionary principle relating to different or alternative forms of structural organization or bonding.
From allo- (other) + Greek desmos (bond, link) + -ism (system or theory suffix). Emerged in biological or biochemical terminology.
Life uses the same chemical building blocks but arranges them in wildly different ways—allodesmism describes how alternative bonding patterns create diversity!
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