INTERBREEDING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does interbreeding mean? 

• INTERBREEDING (noun)
  The noun INTERBREEDING has 2 senses:

1. (genetics) the act of mixing different species or varieties of animals or plants and thus to produce hybrids

2. reproduction by parents of different races (especially by white and non-white persons)

  Familiarity information: INTERBREEDING used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• INTERBREEDING (noun)

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 ("interbreeding" 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 "interbreeding"):

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:

interbreed (breed animals or plants using parents of different races and varieties)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Reproduction by parents of different races (especially by white and non-white persons)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

crossbreeding; interbreeding; miscegenation

Hypernyms ("interbreeding" is a kind of...):

breeding; facts of life; procreation; reproduction (the sexual activity of conceiving and bearing offspring)

Derivation:

interbreed (breed animals or plants using parents of different races and varieties)

 Context examples 

The regular and simultaneous occurrence of alternative nucleotide sequences at equivalent locations of the genetic material among individuals of a single interbreeding population that are not maintained by recurrent mutation.

(Genetic Polymorphism, NCI Thesaurus)

Interbreeding between the two different species of finches produced fertile offspring of a new species.

(Researchers report rapid formation of new bird species in Galápagos islands, Wikinews)

Researchers in the University of Cambridge’s Department of Genetics analysed the sequencing data to investigate evidence of interbreeding between the ancestors of modern humans and extinct human lineages such as Neanderthals and Denisovans, which occurred 40,000 to 60,000 years ago.

(Global human genome study reveals our complex evolutionary history, University of Cambridge)

Single Nucleotide Polymorphism in Intergenic Sequences consists of a variation at an appreciable frequency between individuals of a single interbreeding population of a single nucleotide, due to base substitution, at an equivalent location within a DNA sequence of genetic material that lies between the boundaries of adjacent genes.

(Intergenic SNP, NCI Thesaurus)

A Non-synonymous Coding SNP consists of a variation at an appreciable frequency between individuals of a single interbreeding population of a single nucleotide, due to base substitution, at an equivalent location within a protein-coding region of a gene that causes an alteration of the translation of the affected codon into a different amino acid in the protein product.

(Non-synonymous Coding SNP, NCI Thesaurus)

Single Nucleotide Polymorphism in Intronic Sequences (Intronic SNP) consists of a variation at an appreciable frequency between individuals of a single interbreeding population of a single nucleotide, due to base substitution, at an equivalent location within a transcribed non-coding intervening DNA sequence separating protein-coding sequences (exons) in an eukaryotic nuclear gene.

(Intronic SNP, NCI Thesaurus)