What's the difference between breed and intercross?
Breed
Definition:
(v. t.) To produce as offspring; to bring forth; to bear; to procreate; to generate; to beget; to hatch.
(v. t.) To take care of in infancy, and through the age of youth; to bring up; to nurse and foster.
(v. t.) To educate; to instruct; to form by education; to train; -- sometimes followed by up.
(v. t.) To engender; to cause; to occasion; to originate; to produce; as, to breed a storm; to breed disease.
(v. t.) To give birth to; to be the native place of; as, a pond breeds fish; a northern country breeds stout men.
(v. t.) To raise, as any kind of stock.
(v. t.) To produce or obtain by any natural process.
(v. i.) To bear and nourish young; to reproduce or multiply itself; to be pregnant.
(v. i.) To be formed in the parent or dam; to be generated, or to grow, as young before birth.
(v. i.) To have birth; to be produced or multiplied.
(v. i.) To raise a breed; to get progeny.
(n.) A race or variety of men or other animals (or of plants), perpetuating its special or distinctive characteristics by inheritance.
(n.) Class; sort; kind; -- of men, things, or qualities.
(n.) A number produced at once; a brood.
Example Sentences:
(1) The Department of Herd Health and Ambulatory Clinic of the Veterinary Faculty (State University of Utrecht, The Netherlands) has developed the VAMPP package for swine breeding farms.
(2) Angus (A), Charolais (C), Hereford (H), Limousin (L), and Simmental (S) breeds were included in deterministic computer models simulating integrated cow-calf-feedlot production systems.
(3) Affected dogs were from ten breeds and their average age was eight years.
(4) History contains numerous examples of government secrecy breeding abuse.
(5) Over the same period, breeding in drums dropped from 14%-25% to 4.7%, even though the drums were not treated or covered.
(6) The results of this study suggested that there are differences in hormone concentrations that are related to size rather than being the result of differences in physiological maturity of different breeds of cattle.
(7) Heart rates were obtained simultaneously from FM radio transmitters and heart rate monitors externally mounted on unanesthetized and unrestrained mixed-breed goats.
(8) The major plasma lipoprotein of both breeds was high density lipoprotein (HDL) with some low density lipoprotein (LDL) and no very low density lipoprotein (VLDL).
(9) The genetic management of the African green monkey breeding colony was discussed in relation to the difference in distribution of phenotypes of M and ABO blood groups between the parental (wild-originated) and the first filial (colony-born) populations.
(10) On land, the pits' stagnant pools of water become breeding grounds for dengue fever and malaria.
(11) A model is proposed for the study of plant breeding where the self-fertilization rate is of importance.
(12) Urea was determined by means of diacetyl monoxim in the blood cells of 80 cockerels of the initial breed White Leghorn, commercial hybrid Primant.
(13) Beyond 20 mo, weights were adjusted to a constant condition score within breed of sire.
(14) A comparative study was performed for isoelectric and electrophoretic spectra blood serum albumin of parental breeds of chickens and their heterosis hybrids --broiler cocks.
(15) A higher ratio of excitatory to inhibitory neurotransmitter amino acids was always found in all the CNS regions studied in the aggressive breed.
(16) Bactrian camels (63 female female, 8 male male) were used in the breeding season to determine the factors that will induce ovulation.
(17) All the flies were collected from a breeding site inside an abandoned cement building.
(18) In Chinese Meishan pig embryonic mortality appears relatively low compared to European breeds.
(19) Thanks to the groundbreaking technology and heavy investment of a new breed of entertainment retailers offering access services, we are witnessing a revolution in the entertainment industry, benefitting consumers, creators and content owners alike.” ERA acts as a forum for the physical and digital retail sectors of music, and represents over 90% of the of the UK’s entertainment retail market.
(20) Experimentally, the newborn and juvenile matured white A breeded mice of both sexes were used.
Intercross
Definition:
(v. t. & i.) To cross each other, as lines.
(v. t. & i.) To fertilize by the impregnation of one species or variety by another; to impregnate by a different species or variety.
(n.) The process or result of cross fertilization between different kinds of animals, or different varieties of plants.
Example Sentences:
(1) By intercrossing these two strains to produce reciprocal F1 and F2 generations, we have isolated the effects of the homologous chromosome 17 from the effects of the genetic background.
(2) The HLA-GLO linkage relationship was investigated among 37 single backcross families with 97 children and 20 double intercross families with 51 children.
(3) Intercrossing of heterozygotes from 24 strains that express beta-galactosidase identified 9 strains in which homozygosity leads to an embryonic lethality.
(4) The distribution of the ages at onset of diabetes among F2 lymphopenic and F2 intercross rats was significantly earlier than among lymphopenic parental and backcross animals, suggesting that the age of diabetes onset is a heritable trait and that the gene(s) or genetic modifier(s) responsible for the earlier onset of F2 diabetes was acquired from the nonlymphopenic parents.
(5) The cross-intercross system was used for this purpose.
(6) These established congenic strains were maintained by cross-intercrossing.
(7) A surgical technique is presented which is a development of Orticochea's pharyngoplasty, which permits the establishment of a dynamic velopharyngeal closure, using the palatopharyngeal muscles by intercrossing and introducing them into a surgical pocket.
(8) Genetic linkage between H-2 and the high-susceptibility gene of B10.BAR5 was confirmed by testing H-2 homozygotes derived by intercrossing backcross animals.
(9) The SKUMIX program may be valuable to analyze quantitative data obtained from intercross and backcross breeding experiments yielding overlapping values that cannot be individually assigned to a particular phenotype.
(10) It appeared that the H-2aw18 haplotype has a single, recessive, lethal mutation, since homozygotes for H-2aw18 were not detected in progeny generated from the intercross of mice that were heterozygous for this H-2 haplotype.
(11) The F1 hybrids of four intercrosses had low neutrophil levels in blood that suggested a dominant effect of the Nr-1b allele.
(12) RQDB major histocompatibility complex recombinant mouse inherited the H-2Dd gene from the B10.T(6R) parental line and the H-2Db gene from the B10.A(2R) parental line, representing the first example of an intra-D-region crossover resulting from an intercross.
(13) Genetic analyses utilizing resistant and susceptible parental strains, their F1, intercross and backcross progeny indicated that susceptibility to in vitro suppression is regulated by a single autosomal gene, dominant for susceptibility to suppression.
(14) F2 offspring were derived from sibling intercrosses, and 3 lines were established by further intercross matings to generate the F4.
(15) Intercrosses of heterozygous females and hemizygous males yielded 5.5% aneuploidy for Rb(X.2)2Ad and 5.4% for Rb(X.9)6H.
(16) No offspring homozygous for the null allele were produced by intercrossing two heterozygotes, so the homozygous condition was presumed to be embryonic lethal.
(17) Therefore, embryos from both intercross matings and control backcross matings were used to provide inner cell masses (ICMs) for injection into genetically marked blastocysts of the CFLP random bred stock.
(18) Comparison of the results on the enzyme induction by 3-methylcholanthrene in the liver among the parent, intercrossed, and backcrossed mice suggested that the inducibility may be inherited as a single autosomal dominant trait.
(19) This screen permits elimination of a large portion of the intercross generation one month earlier than other methods that rely on detection of serum immunoglobulin.
(20) Intercrossing of heterozygotes gave rise to live born homozygotes, but most of these mice died within the first few weeks of birth.