hybridizing

hy·brid·ize  (hbr-dz)

intr. & tr.v. hy·brid·ized, hy·brid·iz·ing, hy·brid·iz·es

1. To produce or cause to produce hybrids; crossbreed.

2. To form base pairs between complementary regions of (two strands of DNA that were not originally paired).

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hybrid·i·zation (-br-d-zshn) n.

hybrid·izer n.

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Noun

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hybridizing - (genetics) the act of mixing different species or varieties of animals or plants and thus to produce hybrids crossbreeding, hybridisation, hybridization, interbreeding, crossing, cross mating, pairing, sexual union, union, coupling, conjugation - the act of pairing a male and female for reproductive purposes; "the casual couplings of adolescents"; "the mating of some species occurs only in the spring" dihybrid cross - hybridization using two traits with two alleles each monohybrid cross - hybridization using a single trait with two alleles (as in Mendel's experiments with garden peas) reciprocal cross, reciprocal - hybridization involving a pair of crosses that reverse the sexes associated with each genotype test-cross, testcross - a cross between an organism whose genotype for a certain trait is unknown and an organism that is homozygous recessive for that trait so the unknown genotype can be determined from that of the offspring genetic science, genetics - the branch of biology that studies heredity and variation in organisms