In the 18th century, the Swedish government made coffee and its paraphernalia (including cups and dishes) illegal for its supposed ties to rebellious sentiment.
MONOHYBRID
monohybrid
(noun) a hybrid produced by crossing parents that are homozygous except for a single gene locus that has two alleles (as in Mendel’s experiments with garden peas)
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
monohybrid (plural monohybrids)
A hybrid between two species that only have a difference of one gene.
Source: Wiktionary
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INTERSPERSION
(noun) the act of combining one thing at intervals among other things; “the interspersion of illustrations in the text”
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