Diallel

Quick meaning: Diallel is an adjective meaning (genetics) Involving crosses between several or all possible combinations.

Meaning

(genetics) Involving crosses between several or all possible combinations.

More Meanings

1. A set of all possible pairs of items from a specified set of items, especially when used for a study of diallel crosses.
2. A form of logical fallacy in which a proposition that is required to prove another proposition can only be proved by means of assuming the truth of the proposition one is trying to prove; circular reasoning.
3. (rare) Of lines: Meeting and intersecting; not parallel.

Example Sentences

Nine varieties were chosen for a diallel crossing

A series of diallel analyses (cf. Mather and Jinks, 1982) were performed to test for heterogeneity among lines of a given type.

Pollinations in 1956 and 1957 produced seed for eight replications of all 78 combinations of a complete half diallel, excluding selfs.

The diallel mating design is particularly well suited to characterizing genetic effects of inbred lines and their hybrid combinations .

Word Forms

• diallels

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include transallelic, multiallelic, multigene, intergenetic, polyallelic, multiphenotype.

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