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mutational meltdown

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.09 in modern English

Syllables
mu-ta-tion-al melt-down
IPA
26
Scrabble Score
18
Letters
5
Syllables
11
Unique Chars

Meaning

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.

Countable; Uncountable

Usage

Inflected Forms

mutational meltdowns (plural)

Questions

What does mutational meltdown mean?
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.

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