interbreeding in English

verb

1

(with reference to an animal) breed or cause to breed with another of a different race or species.

wolves and dogs can interbreed

noun

• cross, crossbreeding, crossing, hybridization, hybridisation
• crossbreeding, miscegenation

verb

• cross, hybridise, hybridize, crossbreed

Use "interbreeding" in a sentence

1. 5 Interbreeding with feral cats is probably the biggest threat to the wildcat.

2. The Biological Species Concept (BSC) is a classic example of the interbreeding approach.

3. Coyotes are capable of interbreeding with domestic dogs, but survival of the offspring is low

4. From DNA records, scientists hope to confirm or deny the theory that there was interbreeding between the species.

5. 27 In fact, recent evidence from the sequencing of the Neanderthal genome suggests interbreeding, meaning we are part caveman.

6. Past interbreeding between wolves and Coyotes may be responsible for the larger size and color variations in our eastern coyote.

7. At least a few of these Bilineated individuals are present in the population, most likely the result of human introduction and subsequent interbreeding

8. A new study documented the earliest known interbreeding event between ancient human populations -- a group known as the 'super-Archaics' in Eurasia interbred with a …

9. The maximum Breadths of male Egyptian skulls from different epochs were measured because changes in head shape over time suggest that interbreeding occurred with immigrant populations

10. The new study has solved that puzzle and in doing so, it has documented the earliest known interbreeding event between ancient human populations—a group known as the "super-Archaics…

11. Admixture may refer to: Genetic Admixture, the result of interbreeding between two or more previously isolated populations within a species Racial Admixture, Admixture between humans, also referred to as miscegenation

12. Beefalo are a composite cattle breed developed in the United States during the early 1970's by Californian DC "Bud" Basolo by interbreeding American Bison with Domestic Cattle

13. It is known that modern humans and Neanderthals had been separated for about 750,000 years when they started interbreeding and the super-Archaics and Neanderthal-Denisovan ancestors were separated for well over a million years.

14. Anagenesis is an evolutionary process in which species continue to exist and survive as an interbreeding population. It is also referred to as phyletic transformation and involves evolution within a single lineage

15. Michael Donoghue, A Critique of the Biological Species Concept and Recommendations for a Phylogenetie Alternative, 88 (3) THE Bryologist 172, 173 (1985) ("The biological species concept rests on the idea that interbreeding Qualitative, quantitative, and integrative conservation

16. Allopatric speciation A process in which two or more populations of the same (but geographically separated and non-interbreeding) species become less similar to each other over time, through mutation or survival advantages of different traits in differing environments, and …

17. Admixed populations arise when two or more previously mutually isolated populations start interbreeding, which is a very common phenomenon in the human evolutionary history.1, 2, 3As recombination breaks and rejoins DNA molecules to form new ones, a chromosome from an Admixed population resembles a mosaic of ancestral chromosomal segments from different parental populations.