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Segregation
01
the act or condition of setting a person or object apart from a group
02
the policy of separating a group of people from the rest based on racial, sexual, or religious grounds and discriminating against them
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(genetics) the separation of paired alleles during meiosis so that members of each pair of alleles appear in different gametes
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The centromere plays a crucial role in the proper segregation of chromosomes during mitosis.
Prophase marks the start of nuclear division in mitosis, preparing the cell for chromosome segregation.
The civil rights movement in the United States aimed at the abolition of segregation laws that enforced racial discrimination.
Martin Luther King Jr. advocated for civil disobedience as a means to peacefully resist racial discrimination and segregation.
Under segregation laws, mulattos were often subject to discrimination and treated as second-class citizens.
