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dihybrid

American

[dahy-hahy-brid] / daɪˈhaɪ brɪd /

noun

the offspring of parents differing in two specific pairs of genes.

adjective

of or relating to such an offspring.

dihybrid British

/ daɪˈhaɪbrɪd /

noun

genetics the offspring of two individuals that differ with respect to two pairs of genes; an individual heterozygous for two pairs of genes

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Other Word Forms

dihybridism noun

Etymology

Origin of dihybrid

First recorded in 1905–10; di- ¹ + hybrid

Example Sentences

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In such a case then Nilsson-Ehle discovered that he was dealing merely with a Mendelian dihybrid where two different determiners B and B′ and their respective absences b and b′ are involved.

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Such Cases Easily Mistaken for True Blends.—If we should tabulate the possible combinations as we did the dihybrid we should see that we would get individuals having varying numbers of red determiners.

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