Definition of dysgenic in English:
dysgenic
adjective dɪsˈdʒɛnɪkdɪsˈdʒɛnɪk
Exerting a detrimental effect on later generations through the inheritance of undesirable characteristics.
Example sentencesExamples
- War was considered dysgenic - it killed off society's best.
- Another fact that supports the DHPR role in the slow calcium signal is the complete absence of response in electrically stimulated myotubes derived from the dysgenic cell line.
- These dysgenic females were highly sterile due to a high level of I retrotransposition.
- In the generations following a dysgenic cross, the IF invades the genome until it reaches 10-15 copies per haploid genome and is progressively repressed through an autoregulation process.
- This dysgenic crisis would surely bring communism and the regression of mankind.
Definition of dysgenic in US English:
dysgenic
adjectivedisˈjenikdɪsˈdʒɛnɪk
Exerting a detrimental effect on later generations through the inheritance of undesirable characteristics.
Example sentencesExamples
- Another fact that supports the DHPR role in the slow calcium signal is the complete absence of response in electrically stimulated myotubes derived from the dysgenic cell line.
- In the generations following a dysgenic cross, the IF invades the genome until it reaches 10-15 copies per haploid genome and is progressively repressed through an autoregulation process.
- This dysgenic crisis would surely bring communism and the regression of mankind.
- War was considered dysgenic - it killed off society's best.
- These dysgenic females were highly sterile due to a high level of I retrotransposition.