Definition of "hypervariable" [hypervariable]

• Containing a high degree of variability (adjective)

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• "Binding occurs in a small region near the ends of the heavy and light chain called the hypervariable region (labeled only on one arm in the figure)."
• ""hypervariable" region, which changes fast enough to provide a molecular clock calibrated to times comparable to the age of modern humanity."
• "Sequence data from the mitochondrial cytochrome-b gene and the hypervariable control region as well as 7th intron of the nuclear fibrinogen gene show these 2 taxa to be reciprocally monophyletic."