Intercross
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech verb
Quick meaning: Intercross is a verb meaning To cross back over one another.
Meaning
To cross back over one another.
More Meanings
- (biology, genetics) To breed two strains having a common ancestry with one another
- (biology, genetics) The act or product of intercrossing
Example Sentences
Intercrosses are particularly useful with recessive mutations maintained in a small colony.
A species varies occasionally in two directions, but owing to their free intercrossing they (the variations) never increase.
From this trunk, like a tower, rose an enormous tenfold ramification, the branches of which crossed and intercrossed, and forked and developed, […]
Word Forms
- intercrosses
- intercrossing
- intercrossed
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include recross, cross, backcross, outcross, cross-refer, subcross.
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