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Definition of Backcrossing
1. Noun. (genetics) The crossing of a hybrid with one of its parents or an individual genetically similar to its parent ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Backcrossing
1. backcross [v] - See also: backcross
Lexicographical Neighbors of Backcrossing
Literary usage of Backcrossing
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Population and Food in the Early Twenty-First Century: Meeting Future Food by Nurul Islam (1995)
"The maps can be used to select for linked desirable traits, for example, in
single-gene backcrossing programs. Such selection will be especially useful for ..."
2. 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)
"Would you encourage people to submit 129 inbred lines, or would you undertake to
do a backcrossing programme, before you cryopreserved, for example, ..."
3. Intellectual Property Rights and Agriculture in Developing Countries edited by Jeroen Van Wijk, Walter Jaffe (1998)
"... necessary because of the relative ease by which plant breeders can make small
genetic changes through the use of classical backcrossing schemes. ..."
4. The Mechanism of Mendelian Heredity by Thomas Hunt Morgan (1915)
"... results indicate that other non-conformable instances might 1 Nevertheless
stock can be maintained by the method of repeated backcrossing to black pink, ..."
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