HYBRIDISATION

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does hybridisation mean? 

• HYBRIDISATION (noun)
  The noun HYBRIDISATION has 1 sense:

1. (genetics) the act of mixing different species or varieties of animals or plants and thus to produce hybrids

  Familiarity information: HYBRIDISATION used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• HYBRIDISATION (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

(genetics) the act of mixing different species or varieties of animals or plants and thus to produce hybrids

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

cross; crossbreeding; crossing; hybridisation; hybridization; hybridizing; interbreeding

Hypernyms ("hybridisation" is a kind of...):

conjugation; coupling; mating; pairing; sexual union; union (the act of pairing a male and female for reproductive purposes)

Domain category:

genetic science; genetics (the branch of biology that studies heredity and variation in organisms)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "hybridisation"):

dihybrid cross (hybridization using two traits with two alleles each)

monohybrid cross (hybridization using a single trait with two alleles (as in Mendel's experiments with garden peas))

reciprocal; reciprocal cross (hybridization involving a pair of crosses that reverse the sexes associated with each genotype)

test-cross; testcross (a cross between an organism whose genotype for a certain trait is unknown and an organism that is homozygous recessive for that trait so the unknown genotype can be determined from that of the offspring)

Derivation:

hybridise (breed animals or plants using parents of different races and varieties)

 Context examples 

They discovered that despite the rarity of hybrid butterflies – as a result of their reluctance to mate with one another – a surprisingly large amount of DNA has been shared between the species through hybridisation.

(Butterflies are genetically wired to choose a mate that looks just like them, University of Cambridge)