backcross

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To cross a hybrid with one of its parents
An individual produced by such a crossing
Alternative form of back cross
The act of such a crossing
(noun) an instance or result of backcrossing
(verb) cross (a hybrid) with one of its parents or an organism genetically identical to one of the parents
{i} cross-breeding, hybridization
the cross of a hybrid with either of its parents (or a genetically equivalent individual) [CUB]
A genetic crossing of a heterozygous organism and one of its homozygous parents
Crossing an organism with one of its parent organisms
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
Crossing (mating) 'offspring' (a hybrid) with its parent to reinforce or increase the gene frequency of a desired characteristic
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
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
A cross of a hybrid to either of its parents In genetics, a cross of a heterozygote to a homozygous recessive SEE test cross
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
mate a hybrid of the first generation with one of its parents

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