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    Synonyms and Definitions

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    interbreeding


    1. Blood tests were done all the time on all who wished to mate; this was to insure there was no interbreeding among families


    2. Too much interbreeding was another


    3. Yet they almost always avoid interbreeding


    4. Once a male baby was produced by the chosen couple, the old priest was killed and replaced by a new priest, whose wife was blessed with only one daughter, thus ensuring no interbreeding and weakening of the gene pool


    5. the keeper and his wife were both sacrificed after the marriage rites were said replaced by a new priest, whose wife was blessed with only one daughter, thus ensuring no interbreeding and weakening of the gene pool


    6. moving to other planets and interbreeding with non believers from other races


    7. The curse of Bisexuality from interbreeding with another ape or monkey species… later turned and poisoned into homosexuality and lesbianism


    8. The original bi-man, the first bi-pedal ape who left (bye!) the Namib… Desert and reversed it from a Garden of Eden into a Desert was a merged interbreeding between a nomadic and a sedentary species of ape


    9. A merged DNA interbreeding of two subspecies of apes: one male, the other one female; coming together as equals: each one used to being dominant, both fighting for dominance in the new merged tribe


    10. We use these natural mutations by interbreeding animals and plants unnaturally trying to get the results we want… Not the mutations s plant or animal wants and needs to stay healthy; but also improve itself as much as it can all the time

    11. This had taken place by interbreeding and then by conversion to Judaism of a considerable number of communities


    12. "And that way, the clan was kept close," said Rowan, "and there was much interbreeding


    13. When any species becomes very rare, close interbreeding will help to exterminate it; authors have thought that this comes into play in accounting for the deterioration of the aurochs in Lithuania, of red deer in Scotland and of bears in Norway, etc


    14. interbreeding, removed by domestication—Laws governing the sterility


    15. But I believe that their fertility has been diminished in nearly all these cases by an independent cause, namely, by too close interbreeding


    16. I have made so many experiments and collected so many facts, showing on the one hand that an occasional cross with a distinct individual or variety increases the vigour and fertility of the offspring, and on the other hand that very close interbreeding lessens their vigour and fertility, that I cannot doubt the correctness of this conclusion


    17. And thus, the strange fact of an increase of fertility in the successive generations of ARTIFICIALLY FERTILISED hybrids, in contrast with those spontaneously self-fertilised, may, as I believe, be accounted for by too close interbreeding having been avoided


    18. Horticulturists raise large beds of the same hybrid, and such alone are fairly treated, for by insect agency the several individuals are allowed to cross freely with each other, and the injurious influence of close interbreeding is thus prevented


    19. Again, with respect to the fertility in successive generations of the more fertile hybrid animals, I hardly know of an instance in which two families of the same hybrid have been raised at the same time from different parents, so as to avoid the ill effects of close interbreeding


    20. When hybrids are able to breed inter se, they transmit to their offspring from generation to generation the same compounded organisation, and hence we need not be surprised that their sterility, though in some degree variable, does not diminish; it is even apt to increase, this being generally the result, as before explained, of too close interbreeding

    21. Again, both with plants and animals, there is the clearest evidence that a cross between individuals of the same species, which differ to a certain extent, gives vigour and fertility to the offspring; and that close interbreeding continued during several generations between the nearest relations, if these be kept under the same conditions of life, almost always leads to decreased size, weakness, or sterility


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    Synonyms for "interbreeding"

    crossbreeding interbreeding miscegenation cross crossing hybridisation hybridization hybridizing

    "interbreeding" definitions

    (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)