The separation in meiotic cell division of homologous chromosome pairs and their contained allelomorphic gene pairs.<\/p>\n
In sociology, a clustering of people or activities based upon the sharing or presence of common activities or characteristics.<\/p>\n
The act of separating one person, group or thing from others, or of dividing people or things into separate groups which are kept apart from each other.<\/p>\n
The separation of the alleles of each gene and their distribution to separate sex cells during the formation of these cells in organisms with paired chromosomes.<\/p>\n
In general, separation of people into groups on the basis of certain characteristics, such as White from Black, male from female, or handicapped from nonhandicapped. In the past much segregation was generally open, deliberate, and formal, written into law and so called de jure (by law). In the schools such legislated segregation was struck down by the landmark Supreme Court case Brown v. Board of Education in 1954; subsequent federal civil rights legislation outlawed other kinds of formal discrimination, including some relating to the handicapped and to women. Separation continued, however, as a result of informal social pressures; the result was de facto (in fact) segregation, which has similarly been attacked by the courts. One court-mandated approach to segregation in schools has been the controversial busing, but more recently many school districts have tried to establish voluntary desegregation programs, such as those involving schools of choice and magnet schools.<\/p>\n
In genetics, it refers to the recurrence of distinct inherited traits in offspring; the segregation of maternal and paternal genes when gametes are formed.<\/p>\n
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