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heterosis /het·er·o·sis/ (het″er-o´sis) the existence, in the first generation hybrid, of greater vigor than is shown by either parent strain.
heterosis
[het′ərō′sis]
Etymology: Gk, heteros + osis, condition
the superiority of first-generation hybrid plants and animals with respect to one or more traits when compared with either of the parent strains or with corresponding inbred strains. Also called hybrid vigor.

heterosis [het″er-o´sis]
the existence, in the first generation hybrid, of greater vigor than is shown by either parent.

heterosis
the existence, in the first generation hybrid, of greater vigor than is shown by either parent.


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of Michigan) and their contributors cover a wide range of subjects, including Gromov-Witten theory, mirror symmetry in complex and symplectic geometry, and important ramifications in enumerative geometry, with specific papers addressing strong coupling, brane-induced gravity, heterotic geometry influxes, pure Yang-Mills theory, black hole microstates, gravitational singularity, recent developments in heterotic compactifications, instantons and torsion curves.
Typically, inbreeding is deleterious, and in theory inbreeding depression can be caused by negative effects of deleterious recessive alleles when homozygous or the diminution of positive heterotic effects (Lynch & Walsh 1998).
For example, work with the united Quantum Field Theoretical formulation of all powers' and particles' basic dynamics in the common mathematical description today moves from the grand unified theory (GUT) to be formulated as "the heterotic super string theory" as well as efforts to find and manipulate "the fundamental laws of life" by uncovering "the genetic program in the human genome project.
 
 
 
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