Sentence examples for outcrossing from inspiring English sources
verb
Present participle of outcross
Although genetic tests have shown that many, if not most, fern species tend to have an outcrossing breeding system, some other species are involved in the case of ferns with remote disjunctions separated growing regions.
This combines the advantages of maximum fertility through inbreeding with increased variability through outcrossing.
These hairs present the pollen to pollinators while the stigma is still unreceptive, thus facilitating outcrossing (the movement of pollen between individuals).
Typically, insects and other invertebrates are more varied genetically than mammals and other vertebrates, and plants bred by outcrossing (crossing with relatively unrelated strains) exhibit more variation than those bred by self-pollination.
If so, then there are legitimate issues such as outcrossing.
Ranchers once content to breed any bull that leaped around now turned to outcrossing and in-vitro fertilization to select specific behaviors: the dropkick, the side spin, the twisting belly roll.
Various locking and releasing devices of the keel and wing petals control pollination in diverse ways favouring (or enforcing) either outcrossing or self-pollination e.g., Trifolium (clover), Medicago (alfalfa), and Lotuself-pollination erd's-foot trefoil).g.
Some species (e.g., Acer platanoides, Norway maple; A. saccharinum, silver maple; and A. spicatum, mountain maple) are self-sterile and must be outcrossed.
When the stigma becomes receptive, it waits for outcross pollen until near the end of its receptive period, at which point it curls down to self-pollinate with the pollen-covered hairs, thereby ensuring seed production.
We rode through the cattle pritnear ever day year round, and he come to trust me enough to show how his breeding program went, with culls and breedbacks and outcrosses and replacements, and took me to bull sales and showed me what to expect in a bull and which ones were correct and which were sorry.
On the other hand, if you are interested in breeding, this is your book: you will learn what it means if a horse is inbred, linebred, or an outcross, and who the chefs-de-race are in the Roman dosage system.
