Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- To cross or interbreed between a Mendelian hybrid and one of the pure parental forms.
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- noun Alternative form of
back cross .
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Examples
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And if you wanted to make this the ideal experiment you'd probably back-cross separately onto multiple different wild strains, and assay markers at the boundary of the deletions to make sure that the final strain is carrying the deletion, and nothing else.
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In conceptual-genetics terms, that would make the new Time an inbred back-cross.
The Economist: Everyone Copies It, But Does Anyone Translate It? 2007
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