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mutational meltdown

mutational meltdown noun: the process by which a small population accumulates harmful mutations, which leads to loss of fitness and decline of the population size, which may lead to further accumulation of deleterious mutations due to fixation by genetic drift.

Noun

mutational meltdown (countable and uncountable, plural mutational meltdowns)

  1. The process by which a small population accumulates harmful mutations, which leads to loss of fitness and decline of the population size, which may lead to further accumulation of deleterious mutations due to fixation by genetic drift.

Forms of mutational meltdown

pluralmutational meltdowns

Questions about mutational meltdown

What does mutational meltdown mean?
Mutational meltdown means the process by which a small population accumulates harmful mutations, which leads to loss of fitness and decline of the population size, which may lead to further accumulation of deleterious mutations due to fixation by genetic drift.
What part of speech is mutational meltdown?
Mutational meltdown is a noun.
What is the plural of mutational meltdown?
The plural of mutational meltdown is mutational meltdowns.

Words near mutational meltdown in the dictionary

  1. mutating tables
  2. mutation
  3. mutation pressure
  4. mutation testing
  5. mutational
  6. mutational meltdown
  7. mutational meltdowns
  8. mutationally
  9. mutationism
  10. mutationist
  11. mutationistic

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