genetic purity
Ancestral line exclusivity
Genetic purity is the idea that a population—human, animal, or plant—should maintain bloodlines free from mixture with other strains or groups.
In agriculture and animal breeding, it describes efforts to preserve specific traits: genetic purity of heirloom seeds.
Applied to humans, the concept is associated with eugenics and racist ideologies that sought to prevent intermarriage between ethnic groups.
The phrase carries sinister historical weight from Nazi Germany's pursuit of "racial purity" through forced sterilization and genocide.
- eugenicsControlled human reproduction theory
- homozygosityMatching alleles at locus
- cultivarBred plant variety
- seed bankCollection preserving plant genetics
- racial hygienePseudoscientific selective breeding ideology
master race · bioethics · allele · germplasm · biodiversity · monoculture · inbreeding · heirloom · selective breeding · purebred · mutation · designer babies · breed standard · landrace · heritage breed · thoroughbred · bloodline · natural selection
- seed regulationgermination rates, quality standards, seed samples, truth in labeling, state regulations
- seed traitsseed coat, viability, vigor, dormancy, germination
genetic puritygenetic diversity
Allelic variation within populations
genetic mixing · hybrid vigor · heterozygosity · heterosis · hybridization
genetic purityrace mixing
Reproduction across ethnic boundaries
integration · multiculturalism · cosmopolitanism · pluralism · melting pot
genetic, genetics, genetically, gene, genes, genome, genomic, genomics, genotype