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Keywords: Offsping, Organisims, Parent, Hardiness, Vigorous

Related Terms: Dominant, Genotype, Heredity, Heritable, Mendelian, Recessive, Heterosis, Hybrid Vigor, Heterozygote, Heterozygous, Homozygous, Monohybrid Cross, Dominant Inheritance, Alleles, Mendelian Inheritance, Dihybrid Cross, Autosomal Dominant, Codominance, Codominant Alleles, Monohybrid, Homozygote, Dihybrid, Dominance, Autosomal Dominant Inheritance, Autosomal Recessive Inheritance, Autosomal Recessive, Recessive Inheritance, Recessive Gene, Codominant, Hardy-Weinberg Equilibrium, Congenic, Dominant Allele, Dominant Gene, Genetic Heterogeneity, Overdominance, Incomplete Dominance, Testcross, Strain, Test Cross, Recessive Allele, Heterozygosity, Polygenic, Phenotypic, Dominant Trait, Homozygosity, Expressivity, Recessive Trait, Phenocopy, Inbred Strain, Complex Trait

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The exhibition by a hybrid of a more vigorous growth, greater yield, or increased disease resistance than either parent.

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the increase of biological performance of a hybrid over the parental strains that produce it.

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The extent to which a hybrid crop performs better relative to the parents with respect to specific traits, particularly yield.

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Qualities in a hybrid not present in either parent. Examples are increase hardiness, improved growth rate.

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the increased strength and size of a hybrid (an offsping produced as a result of breeding two genetically different organisims) compared to that of the parents Humans as organisms

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