2. Verb. (third-person singular of backcross#Verb backcross) ¹
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Definition of Backcrosses
1. backcross [v] - See also: backcross
Lexicographical Neighbors of Backcrosses
Literary usage of Backcrosses
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. 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)
"Because these sets are typically constructed after two backcrosses, ...
Congenic strains are derived by successive backcrosses in which one strain (the ..."
2. Molecular Markers in Plant Genome Analysis: Sponsored CRIS/ICAR Projects and by Andrew Kalinski (1995)
"... a near-isogenic line is a function of the distance between the marker and the
gene, and the number of backcrosses and/or selfs used in deriving the NIL. ..."
3. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1883)
"The cp strain has been crossed with Upland cotton and also with advanced-generation
backcrosses to Upland cotton with cytoplasms from four other species. ..."
4. Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society Held at Philadelphia for by American Philosophical Society (1915)
"(I infer this from the fact that Ft plants are as fertile inter se as in backcrosses.)
3. The selective elimination of non-functional gametes that must ..."
5. The Mechanism of Mendelian Heredity by Thomas Hunt Morgan (1915)
"... ie, have all received practically the same factors—a striking contrast to the
result usually obtained in "backcrosses." In respect to just one character ..."
6. Science and Society in Early America: Essays in Honor of Whitfield J. Bell, Jr. by Randolph Shipley Klein (1986)
"... hybrids are not new species, because in backcrosses to the parent species the
hybrids tended to revert to the parental forms. ..."
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