hybridizing

hy·brid·ize

H0340100 (hī′brĭ-dīz′)v. hy·brid·ized, hy·brid·iz·ing, hy·brid·iz·es v.intr.1. To produce hybrids; crossbreed.2. To form base pairs between complementary regions of two strands of DNA that were not originally paired.v.tr. To cause to produce a hybrid; crossbreed.

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hy′brid·i·za′tion (-brĭ-dĭ-zā′shən) n.hy′brid·iz′er n.

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hybridizing - (genetics) the act of mixing different species or varieties of animals or plants and thus to produce hybridscrossbreeding, hybridisation, hybridization, interbreeding, crossing, crossmating, 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 eachmonohybrid 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 genotypetestcross, test-cross - 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 offspringgenetic science, genetics - the branch of biology that studies heredity and variation in organisms