dysgenic in English
adjective
1
exerting a detrimental effect on later generations through the inheritance of undesirable characteristics.
dysgenic breeding
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1. Unfortunately , our gross ignorance of the genetic basis of human intellect has not prevented the advocacy of certain dysgenic measures designed to eliminate from a population by compulsory sterilisation detrimental genes responsible for serious genetical diseases and defects .