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Outcross vs Intercross - What's the difference?

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Intercross is a related term of outcross.



As nouns the difference between outcross and intercross

is that outcross is a plant or animal produced by outcrossing while intercross is the act or product of intercrossing.

As verbs the difference between outcross and intercross

is that outcross is to crossbreed different strains of a plant of animal while intercross is to cross back over one another.

outcross

English

Noun

(wikipedia outcross) (outcrosses)
  • a plant or animal produced by outcrossing

    • Antonyms

    * incross

    Verb

    (es)
  • to crossbreed different strains of a plant of animal

    • Antonyms

    * incross * inbreed

    Anagrams

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    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