hybridization
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Hybridization is used extensively in agriculture, where new forms of hardy and disease-resistant plants are produced commercially.
Vocabulary lists containing hybridization
Growth, Development and Reproduction of Organisms - Middle School
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Growth, Development and Reproduction of Organisms - High School
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Many of the world's most important crops have unusually complex genomes created through repeated rounds of whole-genome duplication and hybridization.
From Science Daily ● Jun. 19, 2026
Harrison then made California a principal originator of the hybridization of Eastern and Western music.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 1, 2025
“It’s part of this paradigm shift of appreciating that hybridization can be a constructive process,” says Chris Jiggins, an evolutionary biologist at the University of Cambridge who was not involved in the study.
From Science Magazine ● Apr. 17, 2024
In short, hybridization with H. melpomene went beyond simply creating a population of H. pardalinus with different wing colors—it helped birth an entirely new, separate lineage, the authors say.
From Science Magazine ● Apr. 17, 2024
McKusick and Hsu were hoping to use somatic-cell hybridization to test the Lacks family for several different genetic markers, including specific proteins called HLA markers.
From "The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks" by Rebecca Skloot
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