panmixia

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A situation in which an individual is just as likely to mate with another randomly chosen individual as any other in the population
Random mating within a breeding population
panmixus
panmixis
panmixia

    Hyphenation

    pan·mix·i·a

    Synonyms

    panmixis, panmixus

    Pronunciation

    Etymology

    () New Latin, from Ancient Greek πᾶς (pas, “every, all”) + μίξις (mixis, “mixing, mingling”) + Latin -ia
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