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backcross /back·cross/ (bak´kros) a mating between a heterozygote and a homozygote.

backcross

Etymology: AS, baec + cruc, cross

1 a mating (cross) between a heterozygote and a homozygote.

2 an organism or strain produced by such a cross. See also testcross.

backcross [bak´cros″]

in experimental genetics, union between a heterozygote of the first generation and one of its parents or an organism genetically identical to one of its parents.

double backcross the mating between a double heterozygote and a homozygote.

backcross

mating the crossbred offspring of a two-way cross back to one of the parent breeds.

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