Monohybrid

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    A hybrid between two species that only have a difference of one gene.
  2. 2
    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) wordnet

Etymology

From mono- + hybrid.

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