Definition of Outcrossing

1. Verb. (present participle of outcross) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Outcrossing

1. outcross [v] - See also: outcross

Lexicographical Neighbors of Outcrossing

outcrawling
outcrawls
outcreep
outcried
outcrier
outcriers
outcries
outcrop
outcropped
outcropping
outcroppings
outcrops
outcross
outcrossed
outcrosses
outcrossing (current term)
outcrow
outcrowd
outcrowded
outcrowding
outcrowds
outcrowed
outcrowing
outcrows
outcry
outcrying
outcurse
outcursed
outcurses
outcursing

Literary usage of Outcrossing

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

1. Poultry Culture Sanitation and Hygiene by Benjamin Franklyn Kaupp (1920)
"(Continued) LINE BREEDING, outcrossing, AND INBREEDING Breeding together of sire and offspring, or of dam and offspring, or of brother and sister, ..."

2. Transposable Elements in Plants: Sponsored CRIS/ICAR Projects and Bibliography by Andrew Kalinski (1995)
"Selected transformants were grown up to maturity, and second-generation seedlings with segregation for GUS activity were obtained after outcrossing. ..."

3. A Review of Dipterocarps: Taxonomy, Ecology, and Silviculture by Simmathiri Appanah, Jennifer M. Turnbull (1998)
"outcrossing rates of Dipterocarps. Species outcrossing Rate tm (± standard ... (1994) compared outcrossing rates of Dryobalanops aromatica in primary and ..."

4. Poultry Breeding and Management by James Dryden (1916)
"outcrossing.—The term outcrossing is frequently used by breeders. ... If a careful system of outcrossing be practiced, resort to crossing will probably ..."

5. Application of Rflp & Rapd Molecular Technologies to Plant Breeding: A ...edited by Andrew Kalinski edited by Andrew Kalinski (1994)
"Here we report high outcrossing rates (65-92%) in two ... These outcrossing rates, when analysed with respect to existing evidence concerning pollen ..."

6. Statistics in Molecular Biology and Genetics: Selected Proceedings of a 1997 by Françoise Seillier-Moiseiwitsch (1999)
"For homozygotes this is so because if they result from selfing, then with probability one half the ancestors coalesce, and if they result from outcrossing, ..."

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