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UK
/ˌɪntəbɹˈiːdɪŋ/
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NOUN
- (genetics) the act of mixing different species or varieties of animals or plants and thus to produce hybrids
- reproduction by parents of different races (especially by white and non-white persons)
How To Use interbreeding In A Sentence
- Alan Templeton, a geneticist at Washington University in St. Louis who headed the study reported in Nature, has concluded that yes, there was interbreeding between the different groups.
- The potential of disease was an even bigger threat than interbreeding, he said. Times, Sunday Times
- These differences in color are sufficient to prevent interbreeding among existing species.
- Another prediction of such a surfing model is that even a very small number of events of interbreeding can result in appreciable allele frequencies of Neandertal alleles in the present-day populations. The Volokh Conspiracy » “I, for One, Welcome My Neandertal Ancestry”
- Was there any interbreeding with Neanderthals as modern humans moved into Europe?
- Racial differences will be ironed out by interbreeding, producing a uniform race of coffee-coloured people. And a Rrrratio of Ten Females to Each Male…
- Interbreeding with domestic cats has made it difficult to know whether conservation would protect the wildcat or a crossbreed. Times, Sunday Times
- Theories have ranged from interspecies genocide to interbreeding to humans' superior communication skills, hunting technology, and social organization.
- Some zoologists believe that the differing lifestyles of polar bears and grizzlies will prevent widespread interbreeding in the wild. Times, Sunday Times
- The larger savanna elephant (Loxodonta africana africana) and the smaller forest elephant (Loxodonta africana cyclotis) are capable of interbreeding.