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Hybridization

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noun

(biology) The act or process of mating organisms of different varieties or species to create a hybrid.

(molecular biology) The process of forming a double stranded nucleic acid from joining two complementary strands of DNA (or RNA).

(chemistry) The mixing of atomic orbitals to form new orbitals suitable for bonding.


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In biology, hybridization (or hybridisation) is usually used as a term in agriculture or in plant production where new hardy and disease-resistant crops are formed.


Variant: hybridisation.
Related terms: hybrid (noun), hybridize or hybridise (verb).


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Brown bears and polar bears, can they mate?

id assume it was possible as there has been evidence of grizzly bears mating with polar bears creating a hybrid. Here are some showing this hybridization. http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg21528754.600-hardy-polar-bears-have-survived-past-global-warming.html http://www.nbcnews.com/id/12738644/?GT1=8199#.USuyOleetvE ...

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by marineman
Mon Feb 25, 2013 6:54 pm
 
Forum: Zoology Discussion
Topic: Brown bears and polar bears, can they mate?
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Comprehensive List of long noncoding RNA(lncRNA) databases

... Database), provides gene expression information for thousands of long ncRNAs in human and mouse. It also contains both microarray and in situ hybridization data, much of which is described here for the first time. website: http://jsm-research.imb.uq.edu.au/nred/

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by rnaworld2110
Fri Dec 14, 2012 6:07 am
 
Forum: Molecular Biology
Topic: Comprehensive List of long noncoding RNA(lncRNA) databases
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Evolutionary mechanisms

... social selection, somatic Selection, autoevolution, molecular drive, niche construction, saltationism, self-organization, epigenetics, Semiotics, hybridization, natural genetic engineering, orthogenesis, nomogenesis, hopeful monsters, directed mutagenesis, morphogenetic fields, transposable element ...

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by Forests
Wed Nov 07, 2012 3:14 pm
 
Forum: Evolution
Topic: Evolutionary mechanisms
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Evolution is not Darwinian

... response to danger and evolutionary novelty through genome restructuring resulting from "shocks". G. Ledyard Stebbins (1906-2000): hybridization between species as a source of evolutionary novelty. Carl Woese (1928- ): molecular phylogeny and the existence of at least three distinct ...

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by Forests
Wed Sep 26, 2012 3:29 pm
 
Forum: Evolution
Topic: Evolution is not Darwinian
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Re: Evolution of complex structures

... gene flow, horizontal gene transfer, molecular drive, saltation, symbiosis, niche construction, evo-devo, epigenetics (also see neo-Lamarckism) hybridization, self-organization etc... theres even a mechanism called "internal selection" theres also controversial stuff like orthogenesis ...

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by Forests
Thu Jul 19, 2012 6:14 pm
 
Forum: Evolution
Topic: Evolution of complex structures
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