heterosis in English

noun
1
the tendency of a crossbred individual to show qualities superior to those of both parents.
With overdominance, unlike alleles are postulated to result in a stimulating effect, so that genetic heterozygosity per se produces heterosis .
noun
    hybrid vigor

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1. Crossbreeding offers the advantages of heterosis (hybrid vigor) to a commercial operation

2. Crossbreeding in commercial beef cattle production improves efficiency through heterosis and breed complementation

3. Heterosis (hybrid vigor) and breed complementarity are the primary benefits realized from a properly planned Crossbreeding program

4. Heterosis (hybrid vigor) and breed complementarity are the primary benefits realized from a properly planned Crossbreeding program

5. Crossbreeding enables the producer to take advantage of heterosis and to combine desirable characteristics of different breeds

6. Crossbreeding programs must be systematic and well-planned to take full advantage of heterosis and breed differences

7. Crisscrossing is based on the phenomenon of heterosis in hybrids of not only the first but several succeeding generations

8. Apomixis is a disruptive innovation by which a plant produces clonal seeds capturing heterosis and gene combinations of elite phenotypes

9. Southern Balancer is a Gelbvieh-heat tolerant composite specifically targeted to producers who want the maternal heterosis, disposition, fertility and carcass consistency of a Bos Indicus x Gelbvieh cross.

10. Crossbreeding beef cattle offers two primary advantages relative to the use of only one breed: 1) crossbred animals exhibit heterosis (hybrid vigor), and 2) crossbred animals combine the strengths of the various breeds used to form the cross

11. Crossbreeding beef cattle offers two primary advantages relative to the use of only one breed: 1) crossbred animals exhibit heterosis (hybrid vigor), and 2) crossbred animals combine the strengths of the various breeds used to form the cross.

12. Backcrosses from paternal Backcrosses, individual heterosis was estimated as the deviation of single crosses from purebreds, and the residual pure­ bred effect was estimated as a deviation of each pure breed from estimates of general combining ability and maternal ability

13. The primary genetic interest in Crossbreeding is in whether animals with genes from different parent breeds perform differently in combination than the average of their parent breeds. The term for crossbred performance relative to the parent average is hybrid vigor, or heterosis.