Examples of 'outcrossing' in a sentence

Meaning of "outcrossing"

Outcross means to breed or mate individuals from unrelated groups or strains in order to introduce genetic variation
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  • present participle of outcross
  • An organism produced by outcrossing

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An animal or plant produced as the result of outcrossing.
Outcrossing rates and dispersal distance of.
Both species show predominant outcrossing in undisturbed forest.
Outcrossing and admixture in seed and crop production.
There is no mechanism for preventing inbreeding or to ensure outcrossing.
Outcrossing is where two unrelated individuals are crossed to produce progeny.
Xerocrassa geyeri is hermaphroditic species and fertilisation is obligately outcrossing.
Outcrossing is a way of bringing fresh blood into the white strain.
This is one of several methods used by plants to promote outcrossing.
Outcrossing varied significantly among clone banks and pollination years.
Gentii has a mixed mating system mixture of selfing and outcrossing.
Outcrossing rate estimates showed a general increase with time since pollination.
Further study is required to determine the outcrossing rate in these capitula.
Outcrossing the Bobtail to domestic stock is still allowable.
This latter approach may be advantageous with respect to outcrossing species.

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Significant heterogeneity in outcrossing rates occurred among the seven populations studied.
Outcrossing and gene flow on conventional and organic farms in Denmark.
It promotes outcrossing.
Its outcrossing progenitor was Capsella grandiflora.
Owing to the small numbers of surviving specimens outcrossing was used in the breeding programme.
Outcrossing - the mating of genetically unrelated individuals.
Gregor Mendel used outcrossing in his experiments with flowers.
Therefore, deceptive species are predicted to experience high outcrossing.
Gregor Mendel used outcrossing in his experiments with flowers for his breeding stock.
In plants, the term refers to the degree and circumstances of outcrossing.
Also, some outcrossing or seed mixing may have occurred.
Endosporic species are thus usually dioecious, a condition that promotes outcrossing.
In contrast, outcrossing patterns of isolated pasture trees varied between species.
This species is probably pollinated through outcrossing and is probably self-incompatible.
However, some outcrossing has occurred in order to produce specific coat colours.
These were self-compatible breeding system, with fruiting by selfing and outcrossing.
In general, the bauhinia species are outcrossing and have low reproductive efficiency.
Specifically, leaf length of developing seedlings increased significantly as a function of outcrossing distance.
They also have a high outcrossing rate, which helps to increase genetic diversity.
Total leaf number showed a similar, yet statistically nonsignificant, response to outcrossing distance.
Peach palm is a predominantly outcrossing species, though self-fertilization has also been observed.
Outcrossing between all three species has been successful, and many hybrids have been described.
Back-crossing to a parental plant and outcrossing with a non-transgenic plant are also contemplated.
The two self-pollinated subspecies appear to have arisen independently from the outcrossing ssp . concinna.
With recessive traits, outcrossing allows for the recessive traits to migrate across a population.
The L-biotype, in contrast to its relatives exhibits a bifactorial outcrossing mechanism.
The amount of outcrossing was estimated using open-pollinated array data at four enzyme loci.
In animal breeding, techniques such as inbreeding, linebreeding, and outcrossing are utilized.
These plants probably arose through outcrossing between normal, haploid gametes and unreduced, diploid gametes.
Outcrossing rate values theoretically range from 0 ( selfing ) to 1 randomly outcrossing to the population.
At that time, further outcrossing to Siamese and Burmese stopped.
A few species, such as B. brownii, are exceptional in having low outcrossing rates.
Subject: Outcrossing and permanent establishment of GMOs.
The sweet passion fruit ( passiflora alata ) is a diploid, outcrossing and underexploited species.
What about outcrossing of genes? What happens if genes do outcross into wild species?

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