mutational meltdown (English, noun)
expansion: mutational meltdown (countable and uncountable, plural mutational meltdowns)
Senses:
topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: 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.
tags: countable
uncountable
Forms:
form: mutational meltdowns
tags: plural