intercross
Example Sentences
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We have also seen that as plants became more highly developed and affixed to the ground, they would be compelled to be anemophilous in order to intercross.
From Effects of Cross and Self Fertilisation in the Vegetable Kingdom by Charles Darwin
If two distinct breeds were to be confined together in equal numbers, there is reason to suspect that they would to a certain extent prefer pairing with their own kind; but they would likewise intercross.
From The Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication, Volume II (of 2) by Charles Darwin
Their expeditions intercross each other; we find them everywhere at once; Franks are seen at London, and Saxons at Angers.
From A Literary History of the English People From the Origins to the Renaissance by Jean Jules Jusserand
It has been said in the case of this plant, as of so many others, that the flowers are fertilised in the bud, and that distinct plants or varieties can never naturally intercross.
From Effects of Cross and Self Fertilisation in the Vegetable Kingdom by Charles Darwin
Much other indirect evidence could be given with respect to the extent to which varieties of the same species spontaneously intercross.
From Effects of Cross and Self Fertilisation in the Vegetable Kingdom by Charles Darwin
