Disassortatively
adv
adv ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Adverb
- 1 In a disassortative manner
"In fact, classic assortative mating is not possible to occur among the PAA genomotype because crosses between PAA males and females do not father PAA offspring, meaning PAA females have to mate disassortatively in order to produce offspring of their own type."
Example
More examples"In fact, classic assortative mating is not possible to occur among the PAA genomotype because crosses between PAA males and females do not father PAA offspring, meaning PAA females have to mate disassortatively in order to produce offspring of their own type."
Etymology
From disassortative + -ly.
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