👉 Glomus is a term used in evolutionary biology to describe the process by which two organisms, often related clades of animals, merge or join together. It refers to the fusion of two individuals within an organism's genetic structure that results in new traits and characteristics. In the context of evolutionary biology, glomus describes how organisms can adapt to changing environments through a process called recombination, where two genes from different species fuse into a single gene. This fusion occurs through a process known as hom