hybridization

Cultural

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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Growth, Development and Reproduction of Organisms - Middle School

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Because of this precise match, successful reproduction occurs only between members of the same species, preventing hybridization.

From Science Daily • Mar. 11, 2026

Harrison then made California a principal originator of the hybridization of Eastern and Western music.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 1, 2025

This phenomenon, known as subspecies hybridization, can be an important path for species to adapt to a changing environment.

From Science Daily • Apr. 19, 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

In 1997 Mary W Eubanks, a Duke University biologist, resuscitated the hybridization theory in a new variant.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann

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