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Cross-fertilize   Listen
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Cross-fertilize  v. t.  (past & past part. cross-fertilized; pres. part. cross-fertilizing)  (Bot.) To fertilize, as the stigmas of a flower or plant, with the pollen from another individual of the same species.






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... intermediates. Accordingly he called the tall character dominant, and the dwarf character recessive, and a pair of contrasted characters which act in this way are now called factors or sometimes called unit characters. But on allowing these hybrids to cross-fertilize one another in the usual way, Mendel found that in the second generation of hybrids there were always three talls to one dwarf out of every four. Further experiments proved that these dwarfs of ...
— Q. E. D., or New Light on the Doctrine of Creation • George McCready Price



Words linked to "Cross-fertilize" :   fertilise, turn, fecundate, change state, cross-fertilization, cross-fertilise, inseminate



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