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dehybridize

dehybridize verb: to produce genetically stable offspring from an F1 hybrid.

Verb

dehybridize (third-person singular simple present dehybridizes, present participle dehybridizing, simple past and past participle dehybridized)

  1. To produce genetically stable offspring from an F1 hybrid
  2. To remove hybridization
    • In contrast with predictions based on the melting temperatures of DNA [12 –14 ], our results show that an increasing percentage of GC base pairs in a long DNA molecule lowers the stretching force necessary to locally dehybridize the DNA backbones in the presence of negative supercoiling densities.2015 October 30, “Counterintuitive DNA Sequence Dependence in Supercoiling-Induced DNA Melting”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI

Forms of dehybridize

third-person singular presentdehybridizes
present participledehybridizing
past participledehybridized
pastdehybridized

Origin of dehybridize

From de- + hybridize.

Questions about dehybridize

What does dehybridize mean?
Dehybridize means to produce genetically stable offspring from an F1 hybrid.
What part of speech is dehybridize?
Dehybridize is a verb.
What is the past tense of dehybridize?
The past tense of dehybridize is dehybridized.

Words near dehybridize in the dictionary

  1. Dehwars
  2. dehybridisation
  3. dehybridisations
  4. dehybridization
  5. dehybridizations
  6. dehybridize
  7. dehybridized
  8. dehybridizes
  9. dehybridizing
  10. dehydrant
  11. dehydrants

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