👉 Sipidity, in the context of genetics and genomics, refers to a measure of genetic diversity within a population. It is a statistical statistic that quantifies how much variation there is between different populations or individuals within a given species. The concept of siphonia (from Greek "siphon" meaning pipe or tube, and "osis" meaning diversity) has been used in genetics for centuries to describe the distribution of genetic variation across a population. It was first described by Charles Darwin in
