hybridization

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Harrison then made California a principal originator of the hybridization of Eastern and Western music.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 1, 2025

Baker notes that the lineage that led to blueberries, for instance, is the result of an ancient hybridization between dogwoods and the ancestors of coffee plants, daisies, and mints.

From Science Magazine • Apr. 23, 2024

“It’s part of this paradigm shift of appreciating that hybridization can be a constructive process,” says Chris Jiggins, an evolutionary biologist at the University of Cambridge who was not involved in the study.

From Science Magazine • Apr. 17, 2024

The results of these tests showed that hybridization occurred more frequently under the influence of ozone, while few hybrids were found when the flies were previously exposed only to ambient air.

From Science Daily • Apr. 11, 2024

As a Ph.D. student, he’d used HeLa to help develop something called fluorescence in situ hybridization, otherwise known as FISH, a technique for painting chromosomes with multicolored fluorescent dyes that shine bright under ultraviolet light.

From "The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks" by Rebecca Skloot