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🧪 A separating agent ✋ A divider 🧬 A separated result 🚧 Causing separation
segregant

segregant

9.9
An individual or item produced when parts separate, for example in genetics
  • noun
  • /ˈsɛɡrɪɡənt/
  • Specialized
translation icon : segregado
  • This is why crosses were made between aphid-resistant accessions and high-yielding lines, which resulted in very promising transgressive segregants selected in the F6 generation, showing both these characters as shown in Table 5.

Examples

  • In our study, the additive component was of higher magnitude, and it is concluded that transgressive segregants may be isolated which show lower mean values than parents. Pod Length (cm):

    Academic text (2014)

  • In genetics research, a segregant is an individual plant that exhibits different traits compared to its parent due to genetic separation.

  • Mapping-by-sequencing strategies are generally based on the sequencing of bulk-segregant populations (Michelmore et al. 1991).

    Academic text (2017)

  • The scientists identified several segregants in their experiments which displayed unique phenotypes resulting from the selective breeding process.

  • During the chemistry experiment, they observed a segregant that formed distinct layers after the mixture had settled.

Antonyms

combination
553 2.3

A mixture of things or parts that form one thing

Surface Forms

segregant singular
segregants plural

Morphology

segregant = segregate (semi-transparent) = segregate + ant

Formally built from 'segregate' + '-ant', but the sense 'resulting individual or substance' diverges from the typical agentive meaning of '-ant', so the exact relation is less predictable.

Etymology

Segregant comes from se- 'apart' and greg- 'group', so it can be read as a 'separated one'. In genetics or chemistry, a segregant is an individual or piece that results from a process of separation.