BACKCROSS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does backcross mean? 

• BACKCROSS (verb)
  The verb BACKCROSS has 1 sense:

1. mate a hybrid of the first generation with one of its parents

  Familiarity information: BACKCROSS used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BACKCROSS (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they backcross    ... he / she / it backcrosses   
Past simple: backcrossed   
Past participle: backcrossed   
-ing form: backcrossing   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Mate a hybrid of the first generation with one of its parents

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Hypernyms (to "backcross" is one way to...):

cross; crossbreed; hybridise; hybridize; interbreed (breed animals or plants using parents of different races and varieties)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

 Context examples 

Strains derived by repeated backcrossing while maintaining one whole chromosome genetically different from the background strain.

(Consomic Strain, NCI Thesaurus)

Strains of mice derived by repeated backcrossing while maintaining one whole chromosome genetically different from the background strain.

(Consomic Mouse Strain, NCI Thesaurus)

A strain is considered fully congenic after ten generations of backcrossing (N10).

(Congenic Strain, NCI Thesaurus)

The size of the segment and the possibility of transferred alleles on other chromosomes depend on the number of backcross generations.

(Congenic Strain, NCI Thesaurus)

Congenic strains are produced by transferring a mutation from one genetic background to a specific inbred strain through repeated backcrossing.

(Congenic Strain, NCI Thesaurus)