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The principle that the two members of a gene pair, the alleles, separate from each other when sex cells (gametes) form, so each gamete carries only one allele of the pair. Mendel's 1866 Versuche uber Pflanzen-Hybriden first inferred this splitting from the offspring ratios he counted in pea plants, and it later became known as Mendel's first law, or the law of segregation. The referent here is the physical parting of paired hereditary factors into different reproductive cells, not the piling up of solute at a metal boundary or the sorting of households across a city.[1]
The uneven distribution of a solute or impurity within a material, so its concentration varies from place to place instead of being uniform. Scheil's 1942 Bemerkungen zur Schichtkristallbildung modeled how solute is rejected ahead of a moving freezing front and left concentrated in the last liquid to solidify, and McLean's 1957 Grain Boundaries in Metals, refined in Lejcek's later review, treated the enrichment of solute atoms at grain boundaries. The referent is a spatial gradient of composition inside a solid, scaled as atomic or weight fraction, not the parting of alleles into gametes or the sorting of people across a city.[2][3][4]
The spatial separation of social groups across the units of a city or region, so that group members are distributed unevenly rather than mixed together. Duncan and Duncan's 1955 A methodological analysis of segregation indexes set out the index of dissimilarity, which reports the share of one group that would have to relocate for two groups to be spread evenly, and Schelling's 1971 Dynamic models of segregation showed with a simple relocation model how even mild individual preferences can yield sharply separated neighborhoods. The referent is a measured pattern in how people are distributed across places, not the parting of alleles into gametes or the concentration of solute at a metal boundary.[5][6]
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