assortative mating

短语

[医] 选择性交配

词形变化

assortative matings 复数 assortative matings

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    Between males and females of a species, the mutual attraction or selection, for reproductive purposes, of individuals with similar characteristics.

    可数 不可数 生物 医学 心理学

    Underlying all distributions of characters in assortative matings are certain elementary principles based on probabilities and the theory of sampling.

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