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HYBRIDIZING
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Dictionary entry overview: What does hybridizing mean?
• HYBRIDIZING (noun)
The noun HYBRIDIZING has 1 sense:
1. (genetics) the act of mixing different species or varieties of animals or plants and thus to produce hybrids
Familiarity information: HYBRIDIZING used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
(genetics) the act of mixing different species or varieties of animals or plants and thus to produce hybrids
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Synonyms:
cross; crossbreeding; crossing; hybridisation; hybridization; hybridizing; interbreeding
Hypernyms ("hybridizing" is a kind of...):
conjugation; coupling; mating; pairing; sexual union; union (the act of pairing a male and female for reproductive purposes)
Domain category:
genetic science; genetics (the branch of biology that studies heredity and variation in organisms)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "hybridizing"):
dihybrid cross (hybridization using two traits with two alleles each)
monohybrid cross (hybridization using a single trait with two alleles (as in Mendel's experiments with garden peas))
reciprocal; reciprocal cross (hybridization involving a pair of crosses that reverse the sexes associated with each genotype)
test-cross; testcross (a cross between an organism whose genotype for a certain trait is unknown and an organism that is homozygous recessive for that trait so the unknown genotype can be determined from that of the offspring)
Derivation:
hybridize (breed animals or plants using parents of different races and varieties)
Context examples
"Other work has documented that some songbird species can smell, and prefer their own species' odors, but this is the first example in currently hybridizing species that we know of."
(Scent brings songbirds to the yard, National Science Foundation)
MG 98 is a highly specific inhibitor of translation of the mRNA for human DNA (cytosine-5-)-methyltransferase 1 (DNMT1), hybridizing to the 3' un-translated region of DNMT1 mRNA.
(MG 98, NCI Thesaurus)
That's the news from a study out of Lehigh University, the first to document naturally hybridizing songbirds' preference for the smell of their own species.
(Scent brings songbirds to the yard, National Science Foundation)
They wondered whether smell might contribute to the reproductive isolation of black-capped and Carolina chickadees in a zone in Pennsylvania where birds are hybridizing.
(Scent brings songbirds to the yard, National Science Foundation)
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