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Definition of back-cross in English English dictionary
- Alternative form of back cross
- A throw where the object is caught and then thrown from behind the back
- backcross
- To cross a hybrid with one of its parents
- backcross
- An individual produced by such a crossing
- backcross
- Alternative form of back cross
- backcross
- The act of such a crossing
- backcross
- (noun) an instance or result of backcrossing
- backcross
- (verb) cross (a hybrid) with one of its parents or an organism genetically identical to one of the parents
- backcross
- {i} cross-breeding, hybridization
- backcross
- the cross of a hybrid with either of its parents (or a genetically equivalent individual) [CUB]
- backcross
- A genetic crossing of a heterozygous organism and one of its homozygous parents
- backcross
- Crossing an organism with one of its parent organisms
- backcross
- 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
- backcross
- Crossing (mating) 'offspring' (a hybrid) with its parent to reinforce or increase the gene frequency of a desired characteristic
- backcross
- the offspring of a hybrid crossed with one or the other of its parents; in the case of interspecific hybrids, with a member of one or the other parent species
- backcross
- A cross between one animal type that is heterozygous for alleles obtained from two parental strains and a second animal type from one of those parental strains The term is often used by itself to describe the two generation breeding protocol of an outcross followed by a backcross used frequently in linkage analysis (see Chapter 3 and Chapter 9) See Backcross in the MGI Glossary
- backcross
- A cross of a hybrid to either of its parents In genetics, a cross of a heterozygote to a homozygous recessive SEE test cross
- backcross
- A type of genetic cross in which a hybrid strain is crossed to one of the two parental strains See also: Incross Intercross Outcross Testcross
- backcross
- mate a hybrid of the first generation with one of its parents