There are four varieties of commercially viable coffee: Arabica, Liberica, Excelsa, and Robusta. Growers predominantly plant the Arabica species. Although less popular, Robusta tastes slightly more bitter and contains more caffeine.
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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