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panmixia
[ pan-mik-see-uh ]
noun
, Animal Behavior.
- random mating of individuals within a population, the breeding individuals showing no tendency to choose partners with particular traits.
panmixia
/ pænˈmɪksɪs; pænˈmiktik; pænˈmɪksɪə /
noun
- (in population genetics) random mating within an interbreeding population
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Derived Forms
- panmictic, adjective
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Other Words From
- pan·mic·tic [pan-, mik, -tik], adjective
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Word History and Origins
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Word History and Origins
Origin of panmixia1
C20: from New Latin, from Greek pan- + mixis act of mating
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Example Sentences
There is nothing to prevent this, save panmixia, or the presence of free intercrossing.
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Chologaster is in a stage of panmixia as far as the eye is concerned.
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Panmixia, Romanes thinks, may have helped to discharge the color.
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Panmixia, however, as Weismann has shown, would probably be the most important factor in causing blindness.
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It seems that all the admitted objections to degeneration by panmixia apply with equal402 force to germinal selection.
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