panmixia

[ pan-mik-see-uh ]

/ pænˈmɪk si ə /

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noun Animal Behavior.

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

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Also pan·mix·is

[pan-mik-sis]. /pænˈmɪk sɪs/.

Compare assortative mating, disassortative mating.

Origin of panmixia

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

OTHER WORDS FROM panmixia

pan·mic·tic

[pan-mik-tik], /pænˈmɪk tɪk/, adjective

Words nearby panmixia

panko, P'an Ku, panleukopenia, pan loaf, panlogism, panmixia, Panmunjom, pannage, panne, pannhas, panniculus

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How to use panmixia in a sentence

There is nothing to prevent this, save panmixia, or the presence of free intercrossing.
Darwin, and After Darwin, Volume II (of 3)|George John Romanes
Chologaster is in a stage of panmixia as far as the eye is concerned.
The Popular Science Monthly, August, 1900|Various
Panmixia, Romanes thinks, may have helped to discharge the color.
Appletons' Popular Science Monthly, May, 1900|Various
Panmixia, however, as Weismann has shown, would probably be the most important factor in causing blindness.
Are the Effects of Use and Disuse Inherited?|William Platt Ball

It seems that all the admitted objections to degeneration by panmixia apply with equal402 force to germinal selection.
The Popular Science Monthly, August, 1900|Various

British Dictionary definitions for panmixia

panmixia

panmixis (pænˈmɪksɪs)

/ (pænˈmɪksɪə) /

noun

(in population genetics) random mating within an interbreeding population

Derived forms of panmixia

panmictic (pænˈmiktik), adjective

Word Origin for panmixia

C20: from New Latin, from Greek pan- + mixis act of mating

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