hy·brid·ize hybridizes hybridizing hybridized in BRIT, also use hybridise If one species of plant or animal hybridizes with another, the species reproduce together to make a hybrid. You can also say that you hybridize one species of plant or animal with another. All sorts of colours will result as these flowers hybridise freely Wild boar readily hybridises with the domestic pig Hybridising the two species will reduce the red to orange Some people will take the seeds and hybridize the resulting plants with others of their own. to form a new type of plant or animal from two existing types, so that the new type has some qualities from each of the other types
to bind complementary pairs of DNA molecules A DNA molecule has a very strong preference for its sequence complement, so just mixing complementary sequences is enough to induce them to hybridize Hybridization is temperature dependent, so DNA's that hybridize strongly at low temperature can be temporarily separated (denatured) by heating
breed animals or plants using parents of different races and varieties; "cross a horse and a donkey"; "Mendel tried crossbreeding"; "these species do not interbreed"