Definition of Heterosis. Meaning of Heterosis. Synonyms of Heterosis

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Definition of Heterosis

Heterosis
Heterosis Het`e*ro"sis, n. [NL., fr. Gr. ? alteration, fr. ? other, different.] (Rhet.) A figure of speech by which one form of a noun, verb, or pronoun, and the like, is used for another, as in the sentence: ``What is life to such as me?' --Aytoun.

Meaning of Heterosis from wikipedia

- also to gain brevity of expression I suggest … that the word 'heterosis' be adopted. Heterosis is often discussed as the opposite of inbreeding depression...
- DNA replication and repair, and how molecular machines are constructed. Heterosis is the tendency for hybrid individuals to exceed their purebred parents...
- has become very po****r among herd managers using the breed in their heterosis programs for hybrid vigor. These cattle are a versatile breed and adapt...
- conducted by CIMMYT made use of a chemical hybridising agent to evaluate heterosis in hexaploid triticale hybrids. To select the most promising parents for...
- growth and yield characteristics in offspring through the phenomenon of heterosis ("hybrid vigour" or "combining ability"). Two po****tions of breeding...
- crossbreeding did the opposite. Those experiments proved the concept of heterosis. In the 1950s, geneticist J. C. Stephens and a few others hybridized two...
- heterotic. Positive heterosis produces more robust hybrids, they might be stronger or bigger; while the term negative heterosis refers to weaker or smaller...
- still breed ligers for profit. Tigon Panthera hybrid Felid hybrid Leopon Heterosis "Liger cubs nursed by dog in China's Xixiakou Zoo". BBC News Asia-Pacific...
- the American Philosophical Society. He also described heterosis in maize in 1908 (the term heterosis was coined by Shull in 1914) and made a number of other...
- donkey) out of a mare. Like the mule, the hinny displays hybrid vigour (heterosis).: 36  In general terms, in both these hybrids the foreparts and head...