MetaGlossary.com: Outbreeding

Keywords: Mate, Unrelated, Outcrossing, Inbreeding, Breeding

Related Terms: Biotype, Dominant, Heredity, Mendelian, Prepotent, Recessive, Heterosis, Hybrid Vigor, Inbreeding, Linebreeding, Progeny, Heterozygote, Heterozygous, Homozygous, Monohybrid Cross, Mendelian Inheritance, Dihybrid Cross, Inbreeding Depression, Selective Breeding, Codominance, Monohybrid, Dominance, Wild Type, Assortative Mating, Codominant, Polymorphic, Hardy-Weinberg Equilibrium, Congenic, Dominant Allele, Genetic Heterogeneity, Overdominance, Fixation, Incomplete Dominance, Backcross, Testcross, Strain, Test Cross, Recessive Allele, Heterozygosity, Dominant Trait, Homozygosity, F1 Hybrid, Recessive Trait, Outcross, Phenocopy, Inbred Strain, Complex Trait, Breed True, Outcrossing

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A system of breeding that involves crossing unrelated parents.

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n. The random mating of individuals. Also outcrossing.

http://ariel.minilab.bdeb.qc.ca/~fg/Glossary/o.botanicalTerms.html

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In which genetically dissimilar organisms mate with each other.

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Preferential mating between non-relatives, see Inbreeding

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Mating individuals from different populations.

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Also outcrossing. The mating of unrelated individuals.

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the crossing of genetically unrelated plants or animals

http://www.emporia.edu/biosci/genetics/glossary.htm

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Mating between unrelated individuals.

http://www.nativeseednetwork.org/article_view?id=13

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A breeding program involving the mating of unrelated rabbits of the same breed.

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The process of mating unrelated individuals in order to improve vigor or type.

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Breeding in new blood of the same breed.

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The mating of genetically unrelated individuals.

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(originally we called this negative inbreeding, we will no longer use the term negative inbredding) The mating of individuals who are not closely related. Compare with inbreeding.

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