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hybridization

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  1. Producing offspring from parents of different stock.


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Hybridization is used extensively in agriculture, where new forms of hardy and disease-resistant plants are produced commercially.

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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

Herders sometimes favor hybridization because genes from wild progenitors are thought to enhance the hardiness of domestic stock.

From Science Daily May 29, 2024

“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

"Not at all. The only claim my family has to hybridization is right there," he said, pointing to Margaret.

From "The View From Saturday" by E.L. Konigsburg

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