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Keywords: Outcross, Crossbred, Offspring, Mate, Heterozygous

Related Terms: Dominant, Heredity, Hybrid, Mendelian, Prepotent, Recessive, Heterosis, Hybrid Vigor, Heterozygote, Heterozygous, Homozygous, Monohybrid Cross, Alleles, Mendelian Inheritance, Dihybrid Cross, Autosomal Dominant, Selective Breeding, Codominance, Codominant Alleles, Monohybrid, Homozygote, Dihybrid, Dominance, Wild Type, Autosomal Recessive, Recessive Gene, Assortative Mating, Codominant, Congenic, Dominant Allele, Dominant Gene, Genetic Heterogeneity, Overdominance, Incomplete Dominance, Testcross, Outbreeding, Strain, Test Cross, Recessive Allele, Heterozygosity, Back Cross, Dominant Trait, Homozygosity, F1 Hybrid, Recessive Trait, Outcross, Phenocopy, Inbred Strain, Complex Trait, Outcrossing

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a cross between the progeny of a cross and one of the parents.

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A genetic cross between an offspring and one of its parents or an organism genetically identical to one of its parents.

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A cross of a hybrid to either of its parents. In genetics, a cross of a heterozygote to a homozygous recessive. The cross of a hybrid to one of its parental types; a method of incorporating traits into otherwise adapted cultivars. May include multiple crosses to a recurring parental cycle.

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A cross between an animal that is heterozygous for alleles obtained from two parental strains and a second animal from one of those parental strains. Also used to describe the breeding protocol of an outcross followed by a backcross. See also: model organisms

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To breed a cat with one of its parents.

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A type of genetic cross in which a hybrid strain is crossed to one of the two parental strains.

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mate a hybrid of the first generation with one of its parents

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Crossing an organism with one of its parents or with the genetically equivalent organism. The offspring of such a cross are referred to as the backcross generation or backcross progeny. See testcross.

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The mating of a two-breed crossbred offspring back to one of its parental breeds. Example: A Yorkshire-Landrace cross sow bred back to a Yorkshire boar.

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The mating of a two-breed crossbred offspring back to one of its parental breeds. Example: A Hereford-Angus cross cow bred back to an Angus bull.

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Crossing an organism with one of its parent organisms

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A cross between one animal type that is heterozygous for alleles obtained from two parental strains and a second animal type from one of those parental strains. The term is often used by itself to describe the two generation breeding protocol of an outcross followed by a backcross used frequently in linkage analysis.

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The cross of an individual with one of its parents or an organism with the same genotype as a parent.

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the offspring of a hybrid crossed with one or the other of its parents; in the case of interspecific hybrids, with a member of one or the other parent species.

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To cross (mate) with one parent. ( 13)

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