noun
- plural of incross; instances of breeding between closely related individuals or varieties
Usage: genetics; breeding
verb
- third person singular present of incross; breeds closely related individuals or varieties
Usage: genetics; breeding
Examples
- The geneticist incrosses the laboratory mice to maintain pure strains.
- Multiple incrosses were performed to study the inheritance pattern.
- The breeder incrosses related plants to fix desirable traits.
- These incrosses resulted in increased homozygosity in the population.
- The researcher incrosses the fruit flies for genetic analysis.
- Several incrosses were documented in the breeding program records.