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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Harrison then made California a principal originator of the hybridization of Eastern and Western music.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 1, 2025
Czechoslovakian and Saarloos wolfdogs, intentionally bred through wolf-dog hybridization, had the highest wolf ancestry levels at 23-40 percent.
From Science Daily • Nov. 29, 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
“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 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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