Intercross vs Null - What's the difference?
intercross | null |
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.}}
A non-existent or empty value or set of values.
Zero]] quantity of [[expression, expressions; nothing.
Something that has no force or meaning.
(computing) the ASCII or Unicode character (), represented by a zero value, that indicates no character and is sometimes used as a string terminator.
(computing) the attribute of an entity that has no valid value.
One of the beads in nulled work.
(statistics) null hypothesis
Having no validity, "null and void"
insignificant
* 1924 , Marcel Proust, Within a Budding Grove :
absent or non-existent
(mathematics) of the null set
(mathematics) of or comprising a value of precisely zero
(genetics, of a mutation) causing a complete loss of gene function, amorphic.
As nouns the difference between intercross and null
is that intercross is (biology|genetics) the act or product of ing while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.As a verb intercross
is to cross back over one another.intercross
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Noun
(en noun)- (Francis Bacon)
- Since no date of birth was entered for the patient, his age is null .
Adjective
(en adjective)- In proportion as we descend the social scale our snobbishness fastens on to mere nothings which are perhaps no more null than the distinctions observed by the aristocracy, but, being more obscure, more peculiar to the individual, take us more by surprise.