Definition of "substitutional" []

• Of or pertaining to substitution or to a substitute (adjective)

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• "Finally, I was forced to go to court to obtain an order for substitutional service."
• "If the rate of informational increase can be shown to be directly proportional to the substitutional load (and Kimura makes the argument that it can), then we are concerned with the changes in the allele's frequency, not the effects of its expression."
• "It was demonstrated that the rate of accumulation of genetic information in adaptive evolution is directly proportional to to the substitutional load, i.e., the decrease of Darwininian fitness brought about by substituting for one gene its allelic form which is more fitted to a new environment."