Definition of "heterotic" []

• Of or pertaining to heterosis (adjective)
• Describing a hybrid form of string theory (See Heterotic string on Wikipedia) (adjective)

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• "Once established in a deme, a negatively heterotic one with a selective disadvantage for heterozygotes–DW gene arrangement can spread in homozygous form through a subdivided population by random local extinction and colonization."
• "Hedrick and Levin 1984 suggested a mechanism that greatly increases the probability of fixation for negatively heterotic chromosome rearrangements during migration and colonization of other demes."
• "There are types I and II strings of subtype A and B and the closed heterotic string."