Sentence examples for hybridise from inspiring English sources

Abolish meiosis and a plant may be able to produce viable seeds without having them fertilised.Persuading maize and gamagrass to hybridise and form such an apomictic plant was fairly easy because the anti-meiotic genes came in with the gamagrass.

Hybrid vigour is common in plants and is found in some animals though, some speculate, it may be lacking in European royalty.Several years ago Dennis Hedgecock of the University of Southern California and his colleagues discovered that oysters can hybridise.

They are a mixture of several species and sub-species – a tribute to the elm's ability to hybridise and give Britain about 40 varieties.

If our chimp-homo hybrid ancestors did indeed also hybridise with ancestral gorillas, could this ancient cross-species attraction help to explain the attraction some women felt for Guy the gorilla and their bizarre offers of help in a hybridisation programme?

For Wheeldon, dance is a kind of mobile sculpture, with the choreographer as a Pygmalion who entices statues to limber up and step down from their pedestals: 'I find it fascinating to figure out how constantly to shift the shape of two bodies together.' His eagerness to hybridise dance and the visual arts is a heretical symptom.

Unfortunately, pet owners sometimes hybridise these two species.

The latter two monarchs looked very much alike, and the societies they presided over were also close kin.A hybridised elite travelled the continent, patronising its hybridised music and art.

It's more than likely that some are descendants of bulbs bred in the mid-19th century by William Backhouse, who hybridised them in the grounds of his austere country house high above Wolsingham, among conifer plantations and windswept moorland at St Johns, on the edge of Pikestone Fell.

Scientists think the frog attained so many chromosomes through hybridising with similar species over millions of years.

They picked on maize partly because it is so important and partly because it has an apomictic relative known as gamagrass, with which they suspected it could be hybridised to produce a cross that was itself apomictic.Apomixis blocks a process called meiosis.

Although it is not yet as advanced as America in 3D printing, China has big ambitions".3D printing is not competing with conventional manufacturing, but is hybridising with it".Plenty of 3D printing in China dovetails with traditional factories.