单词 | panmictic |
释义 | panmicticadj. Biology. Characterized by or exhibiting panmixia. ΘΚΠ the world > life > biology > biological processes > genetic activity > heredity or hereditary descent > [adjective] > interbreeding intergenerant1888 intergenerating1888 syngamic1904 panmictic1933 1933 Amer. Naturalist 67 123 A segregation of a panmictic population into two groups differing from each other in a complex of genes encounters considerable difficulties on its way. 1985 New Yorker 13 May 60/1 The world is becoming increasingly panmictic—a healthy development both medically and sociopolitically. 1997 G. S. Helfman et al. Diversity of Fishes xxiii. 412/2 American eels, although distributed in ponds, lakes, streams, and rivers from Iceland to Venezuela, all return to a single spawning locale in the Sargasso Sea, remixing their genes at each reproductive episode. Such panmictic spawning means that the entire species consists of only one population. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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