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hybridization

Cultural  
  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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These chromosome groups, known as subgenomes, continue to evolve and interact long after the original hybridization events.

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

Their analysis revealed that almost two-thirds of breed dogs retain wolf ancestry within their nuclear genome from hybridization events that occurred around 1,000 generations ago.

From Science Daily Nov. 29, 2025

The work contributes to a growing notion among evolutionary biologists that hybridization can sometimes increase, not decrease, the diversity of species within an ecosystem.

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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