MONOHYBRID

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does monohybrid mean? 

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

1. a hybrid produced by crossing parents that are homozygous except for a single gene locus that has two alleles (as in Mendel's experiments with garden peas)

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• MONOHYBRID (noun)

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Meaning:

A hybrid produced by crossing parents that are homozygous except for a single gene locus that has two alleles (as in Mendel's experiments with garden peas)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

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

cross; crossbreed; hybrid ((genetics) an organism that is the offspring of genetically dissimilar parents or stock; especially offspring produced by breeding plants or animals of different varieties or breeds or species)