Cross-breeding

"Cross-breeding" in a Sentence (2 examples)

Crop quality and health can often be improved by carefully cross-breeding domesticated and wild specimens of the same species. So researchers often go to regions of the earth where a species originated and still grows wild.

Many herds also show some evidence of cattle gene introgression from early 19th century cross-breeding with domestic cattle.

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