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Terms vs Intercross - What's the difference?

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As nouns the difference between terms and intercross

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

As a verb intercross is

to cross back over one another.

terms

English

Noun

(head)

    • Statistics

    * ----

    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