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monohybrid
 

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Noun monohybrid has 1 sense
  1. monohybrid - 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)
    --1 is a kind of     hybrid, crossbreed, cross

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Monohybrid

Part of speech: noun, adjective

Definitions:

  1. noun: a genetic cross between two individuals that differ in a single hereditary characteristic.
  2. adjective: relating to or characteristic of a monohybrid.

Examples:

Noun:

  • Gregor Mendel's experiments with pea plants were based on the study of monohybrids.
  • The monohybrid of a red rose and a white rose resulted in a pink-colored flower.

Adjective:

  • The monohybrid characteristic of the green-eyed gene was dominant over the blue-eyed gene.
  • The monohybrid inheritance pattern determines the expression of a single gene.

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