The process of sexual reproduction involving the mixing of genetic material from two different parents.
From Ancient Greek 'amphi-' (both) + 'mixis' (mixing/mixture). This biological term became standard in evolutionary theory to describe the genetic recombination that occurs during sexual reproduction.
Amphimixis is nature's way of shuffling the genetic deck every generation—without it, offspring would be identical clones, and evolution wouldn't be possible.
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