law of segregation

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This was where the laws of segregation would sometimes bow down to the laws of survival.

From Literature

The laws of segregation began to fall away; the voting rolls of blacks in the South began to fill.

From Washington Post

This perfectly simple principle is known as the law of segregation, or the law of the purity of the germ cells.

From Project Gutenberg

Against this undignified fervour of attachment, marital and parental, the law of segregation often beats in vain.

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But Mendel's law of segregation is not transgressed, as the preceding analysis has shown; for, the chromosomes have followed strictly the course laid down on Mendel's principle for the distribution of factors.

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