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- back-crossing | backcrossing
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- Definition crossing of a hybrid with one of its parents or an individual genetically similar to its parent, to achieve offspring with a genetic identity closer to that of the parent Reference "Wikipedia > Backcrossing (19.1.2023)"
- Comment It is used in horticulture, animal breeding and production of gene knockout organisms.Not to be confused with breeding back, which can be described as either a natural or a human attempt to assemble or re-assemble the genes of an extinct species, subspecies or domesticated breed which may still be present in the larger gene pool of the overall species or those of multiple interbreedable species.