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Hybrid for any gene pair, with different alleles for the gene being considered, usually one dominant or recessive.
Industry:Agriculture
An individual having different alleles for any gene pair and producing two kinds of gametes.
Industry:Agriculture
Biochemical oxidation of reduced forms of nitrogen to nitrate by heterotrophic microorganisms.
Industry:Agriculture
Obtaining nourishment from outside sources, specifically requiring complex organic compounds of nitrogen and carbon for metabolic synthesis.
Industry:Agriculture
A method of breeding to develop Fl hybrids which exploit the phenomenon of hybrid vigor to increase yield potential and yield stability.
Industry:Agriculture
Refers to the phenomenon in which the Fl hybrid obtained by the crossing of two genetically dissimilar parents shows superiority over the best standard check prevailing at that time in one or a combination of characters.
Industry:Agriculture
Type of alien gene transfer where there is a transfer of traits from species possessing different genome(s).
Industry:Agriculture
A thick-walled, usually translucent cell of some blue-green algae known to be the site of nitrogen fixation.
Industry:Agriculture
Portion of genomic DNA which is highly stained because of high condensation. The heterochromatin is transcriptionally inactive and often contains large amounts of highly repeated DNA (satellite DNA).
Industry:Agriculture
