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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