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Перевод: crossbreeding

[существительное]
скрещивание; метизация

Тезаурус:

1. However, the British breeds are considered better for meat quality and taste and also for thrift and adaptability; they remain in demand as sucklers, whereas the French and other large continental breeds are perhaps better suited as beef sires for commercial crossbreeding in dairy herds.
2. This poses the danger of weeds crossbreeding with genetically engineered crops, which will allow them to inherit traits that will make them better able to survive drought, frost or pests.
3. Inoculations, crossbreeding of animals and the use of hormones are producing better livestock, which resist diseases, which fatten faster, and which give more milk, wool or eggs.
4. It is not known whether the original breeding arose from mutation or selection, or, some say, by crossbreeding with perhaps a French breed or the Devon.
5. Importers were beginning to demand more controlled breed purity (especially the Americans) and the Dutch breeders themselves began to move away from crossbreeding, in line with many other European countries, particularly Britain.
6. More recently the Shorthorn Society in the UK has adopted a scheme to develop the Dairy Shorthorn by carefully controlled crossbreeding with other red-and-white breeds (Red Holstein, Red Friesian, Danish Red, Simmental and Meuse-Rhine-Yssel) to produce a Blended Red-and-White Shorthorn .
7. Inbreeding appears to outweigh crossbreeding in many stocks of arctic plants, a condition that may be adaptive in a harsh environment where interspecific competition is insignificant.