Intercross - What does it mean?
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To cross back over one another
* {{quote-book, 1895, , Captain Antifer
, 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
, passage=A species varies occasionally in two directions, but owing to their free intercrossing they (the variations) never increase.}}
(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
, passage=Intercrosses are particularly useful with recessive mutations maintained in a small colony.}}
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