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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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