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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.

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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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