Meaning of SEGREGATION
| Pronunciation: | | `segru'geyshun
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- [n] the act of segregating or sequestering; "sequestration of the jury"
- [n] a social system that provides separate facilities for minority groups
- [n] (genetics) the separation of paired alleles during meiosis so that members of each pair of alleles appear in different gametes
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| | Synonyms: | | sequestration |
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| | Antonyms: | | desegregation, integrating, integration | | |
| | See Also: | | biological process, de facto segregation, de jure segregation, meiosis, miosis, organic process, purdah, racial segregation, reduction division, separation, sex segregation, social organisation, social organization, social structure, social system, structure | |
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| | Definition: | | \Seg`re*ga"tion\, n. [L. segregatio: cf. F.
s['e]gr['e]gation.]
1. The act of segregating, or the state of being segregated;
separation from others; a parting.
2. (Geol.) Separation from a mass, and gathering about
centers or into cavities at hand through cohesive
attraction or the crystallizing process.
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| | Definition: | | Separation of parental chromosomes at meiosis and of alleles, leading to new gene combinations. |
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- The normal biological process whereby the two pieces of a chromosome pair are separated during meiosis and randomly distributed to the germ cells.
- in the formation of sex cells, the process in which paired hereditary factors separate, forming sex cells that contain either one or the other factor.
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