Which of the following definitions best characterizes the concept of polymorphism?

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The ability to write more than one type of class that is derived from a common base class.

The ability to define a derived class that extends multiple base classes, allowing instances of that type to be passed to methods that expect an instance of any one of the base classes.

The ability to provide overloaded forms of the same method on a class; allowing the same logical functionality to be accessed using different sets of arguments.

The ability to treat objects of different types generically as if they were instances of the same type; typically by means of dynamic method dispatching using virtual methods

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Polymorphism and dynamic binding enable the writing of generic code where objects of different types but having a common base class are treated in a generic way. Generic code is often easy and clean to write and maintain since the type specific details are encapsulated inside the methods.