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backcross

Cross between an offspring and one of its parents, or an individual that is genetically identical to one of its parents. It is a breeding technique used to determine the genetic makeup of an individual organism.



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It takes time to backcross a particular germplasm with a technology, so we've started backcrossing while we're testing new varieties.
Cotton Journal by Burchett, Andrew / Farm Journal
Using an elaborate computer simulation of the way genes can spread between and within populations, the team concluded that backcrossing is probably very rare.
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Using a technique known as backcrossing, McIntire and her colleagues generated mice that were genetically identical to the susceptible mice, other than for small segments of DNA from the resistant group.
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