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panmixia

/pan-mik-see-uh/US // pænˈmɪk si ə //UK // (pænˈmɪksɪə) //

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1

    Animal Behavior.

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

Examples

  • 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.