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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
outcross .
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Examples
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Livestock has been crossbred, linebred, inbred and outcrossed for millenia.
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Which is "more primitive," the New Guinea singing dog, the dingo, or the (frequently outcrossed to wolves) Alaskan husky?
Controversial origins of the domestic dog Darren Naish 2006
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Erythrina variegata is bird-pollinated, outcrossed and sometimes genetically incompatible.
Chapter 10 1996
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Erythrina variegata is bird-pollinated, outcrossed and sometimes genetically incompatible.
Chapter 8 1996
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Erythrina variegata is bird-pollinated, outcrossed and sometimes genetically incompatible.
Chapter 8 1990
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Plants raised from these seeds were grown in a pollinator-free greenhouse and intercrossed, within populations, to obtain outcrossed plants for the crossing experiment.
PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Josefin A. Madjidian et al. 2009
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GM crops have outcrossed [bred with non-GM plants] after we were told they wouldn't.
The Border Mail 2009
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Strains containing [PSI+] can acquire complex phenotypic traits distinct from [psi −] strains, and when outcrossed to wild-type strains, these phenotypic traits can sometimes be maintained even after treatment to remove [
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