admixture
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9.3
- noun
- /ædˈmɪkʃər/
- Specialized
- In particular, they pointed out that the policy would not protect individuals with any history of genetic admixture, even if the historical genetic contribution of a nonthreatened taxon was trivial, or if a limited genetic contribution of a nonthreatened taxon served to increase fitness in the face of inbreeding depression or a biological enemy.
Examples
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Around the end of the seventeenth century, the term acquired the entire range of social and cultural connotations that it has today: a mixture of Indian and European, various degrees of admixture of Indian and European, and phenotypic Indians who have acquired Mestizo status.
Academic text (1997) -
Bruce pointed out that "Negroid," the term coined by Johann Blumenbach, implied, as did "Afro-American," an admixture.
Academic text (1994) -
The possibilities for admixture after this period would have been much more limited.
Blog text (18) -
In Arkansas, "persons of color" included all who had a visible and distinct admixture of African blood.
Academic text (1994) -
The remaining group is in the hill region, which has an admixture of both the Indo-Aryan and Mongoloid groups.
Academic text (1992) -
And then we look at these remains and it looks like all of a sudden there's a spike in European related admixture that then dies out.
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We are a curious admixture of people, some partisan, some non-partisan, and some anti-partisan.
Blog text (19) -
So these are populations like the Papuans, Aboriginal Australians have admixture from the Denisovan population.
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In and around this area of ethnic admixture, as in the region of Katompe not far to the northeast, stylistic borrowings and blurring inevitably occurred.
Academic text (1995) -
The study revealed that the population showed a significant admixture of both European and Indigenous ancestry.
Synonyms
4
6.2
Animals or plants from different groups produce mixed young
3
7.1
People of different races who have children together
2
4.4
Mixing different kinds of animals or plants to make young with chosen traits
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5.5
Combining different things like ideas or styles to make something new
1
9.7
Putting different things together to make one thing
Antonyms
How Mixed
- Specialized
4
6.1
- Specialized
3
9.3
- Specialized
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9.9
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3.7
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Admixture comes from ad- ('to') and mixture ('a mix'). Think of different groups being added into a mix, like people or genes joining together, so in genetics it means the mixing of populations and the share of ancestry each group gives.