Intercross
Full definition of intercross
Verb
- To cross back over one another
- From this trunk, like a tower, rose an enormous tenfold ramification, the branches of which crossed and intercrossed, and forked and developed, ...
- (biology, genetics) To breed two strains having a common ancestry with one another
- A species varies occasionally in two directions, but owing to their free intercrossing they (the variations) never increase.
Noun
- (biology, genetics) The act or product of intercrossing
- Intercrosses are particularly useful with recessive mutations maintained in a small colony.
