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<p>In <a href="page.php?w=biology">biology</a>, a <b>deme</b>, in the strict sense, is a group of individuals that belong to the same <a href="page.php?w=taxonomic_group">taxonomic group</a>. However, when biologists, and especially ecologists, use the term 'deme' they usually refer to it as the definition of a gamodeme: a local group of individuals (from the same taxon) that interbreed with each other and share a <a href="page.php?w=gene_pool">gene pool</a>. The latter definition of a deme is only applicable to <a href="page.php?w=Sexual_reproduction">sexual reproducing</a></p><p>
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