Definition of Backcrossed

1. Verb. (past of backcross) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Backcrossed

1. backcross [v] - See also: backcross

Lexicographical Neighbors of Backcrossed

backchecks
backcloth
backcloths
backcomb
backcombed
backcombing
backcombs
backcountries
backcountry
backcourt
backcourtman
backcourtmen
backcourts
backcrawl
backcross
backcrossed (current term)
backcrosses
backcrossing
backdate
backdated
backdates
backdating
backdoor
backdoored
backdooring
backdoors
backdown
backdowns
backdraft
backdrafts

Literary usage of Backcrossed

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Mechanism of Mendelian Heredity by Thomas Hunt Morgan (1915)
"words there is expected no return to either parent type, but the hybrid when backcrossed always continues to produce hybrids. Moreover, there is no apparent ..."

2. Microbial and Phenotypic Definition of Rats and Mice: Proceedings of the by National Research Council Staff, Commission on Life Sciences, ebrary, Inc, International Committee (1999)
"Congenic mutant strains carry a mutation that has been backcrossed onto the strain background from another strain or ..."

3. Novel Systems for the Study of Human Disease: From Basic Research to by OECD Staff, (Paris) Organisation for Economic Co-ope, SourceOECD (Online service) (1998)
"... mice and then backcrossed to C57B1 (Moechars et a!., 1996). Transcription of the transgene, ..."

4. Oxygen/Nitrogen Radicals and Cellular Injury edited by Kenneth B. Adler, Robert D. Devlin, Val Vallyathan (2000)
"... not modify serum anti-DNA antibody levels or glomerular-deposition of immune complexes. When mice with genetically disrupted NOS2 were backcrossed to ..."

5. Scientists, Plants, and Politics: A History of the Plant Genetic Resources by Robin Pistorius (1997)
"In common agricultural research, the resistance is backcrossed to agronomically superior lines which are susceptible to a disease. ..."

6. Contributions by Brooklyn Botanic Garden (1917)
"First generation (Fi) progeny from crosses between whites such as iX 4, or whites and yellows such as 2 X 3, should give, when backcrossed with white ..."

7. Critical Needs for Research in Veterinary Science by Banr, National Research Council (U. S.) (2005)
"(1987) constructed a congenic strain in which the LEW resistance gene was backcrossed onto a susceptible WF inbred strain. Identification of the gene and ..."

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