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Intercrops vs Intercross - What's the difference?

intercrops | intercross |

As verbs the difference between intercrops and intercross

is that intercrops is (intercrop) while intercross is to cross back over one another.

As nouns the difference between intercrops and intercross

is that intercrops is while intercross is (biology|genetics) the act or product of ing.

intercrops

English

Verb

(head)
  • (intercrop)

    • Noun

    (head)

    • intercrop

    English

    Verb

  • To grow more than one crop, in alternate rows, in the same field

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The second (or subsequent) crop so planted

    • 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