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panmixia

[ pan-mik-see-uh ]

noun

, Animal Behavior.
  1. random mating of individuals within a population, the breeding individuals showing no tendency to choose partners with particular traits.


panmixia

/ pænˈmɪksɪs; pænˈmiktik; pænˈmɪksɪə /

noun

  1. (in population genetics) random mating within an interbreeding population
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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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

Origin of panmixia1

1885–90; pan- + Greek míx ( is ) mingling, mixing ( m ( e ) ig ( nýnai ) to mix + -sis -sis ) + -ia
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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.

Chologaster is in a stage of panmixia as far as the eye is concerned.

Panmixia, Romanes thinks, may have helped to discharge the color.

Panmixia, however, as Weismann has shown, would probably be the most important factor in causing blindness.

It seems that all the admitted objections to degeneration by panmixia apply with equal402 force to germinal selection.

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