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Intercross vs Taxonomy - What's the difference?

intercross | taxonomy |

As nouns the difference between intercross and taxonomy

is that intercross is (biology|genetics) the act or product of ing while taxonomy is the science or the technique used to make a classification.

As a verb intercross

is to cross back over one another.

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.}}

    taxonomy

    Noun

    (taxonomies)
  • The science or the technique used to make a classification.
  • A classification; especially , a classification in a hierarchical system.
  • (taxonomy, uncountable) The science of finding, describing, classifying and naming organisms.
  • Synonyms

    * alpha taxonomy

    Derived terms

    * folk taxonomy * scientific taxonomy

    See also

    * classification * rank * taxon * domain * kingdom * subkingdom * superphylum * phylum * subphylum * class * subclass * infraclass * superorder * order * suborder * infraorder * parvorder * superfamily * family * subfamily * genus * species * subspecies * superregnum * regnum * subregnum * superphylum * phylum * subphylum * classis * subclassis * infraclassis * superordo * ordo * subordo * infraordo * taxon * superfamilia * familia * subfamilia * ontology