segregate
verb
• set apart from the rest or from each other; isolate or divide.
• "apprehensions about groups segregated from the rest of society"
Similar:
separate,
set apart,
keep apart,
sort out,
isolate,
quarantine,
insulate,
exclude,
closet,
protect,
shield,
partition,
divide,
detach,
disconnect,
sever,
divorce,
dissociate,
cut off,
sequester,
• (of pairs of alleles) be separated at meiosis and transmitted independently via separate gametes.
• "the gene pairs segregate at reduction division"
segregate
noun
• an allele that has undergone segregation.
• a species within an aggregate.
Origin:
mid 16th century: from Latin segregat- ‘separated from the flock’, from the verb segregare, from se- ‘apart’ + grex, greg- ‘flock’.
