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Backcross vs Intercross - What's the difference?

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Intercross is a related term of backcross.



As verbs the difference between backcross and intercross

is that backcross is to cross a hybrid with one of its parents while intercross is to cross back over one another.

As nouns the difference between backcross and intercross

is that backcross is the act of such a crossing while intercross is the act or product of intercrossing.

backcross

English

Verb

  • (genetics) To cross a hybrid with one of its parents

    • Noun

    (es)
  • The act of such a crossing
  • An individual produced by such a crossing
  • (juggling)

    • intercross

    English

    Verb

    (es)
  • To cross back over one another
  • * {{quote-book, 1895, , Captain Antifer citation
    • , passage=From this trunk, like a tower, rose an enormous tenfold ramification, the branches of which crossed and intercrossed , and forked and developed,
  • (biology, genetics) To breed two strains having a common ancestry with one another
  • * {{quote-book, 1916, , Letters and Reminiscences, Vol. 1 citation
    • , passage=A species varies occasionally in two directions, but owing to their free intercrossing they (the variations) never increase.}}

    Noun

    (intercrosses)
  • (biology, genetics) The act or product of ing
  • * {{quote-book, 2000, Xavier Montagutelli, chapter=Determining the Genetic Basis of a New Trait, Systematic Approach to Evaluation of Mouse Mutations, editors=Sundberg & Boggess citation
    • , passage=Intercrosses are particularly useful with recessive mutations maintained in a small colony.}}

    Related terms

    * backcross * outcross