heterosis - Glite Dictionary

Examples

Heterosis, or hybrid vigor... may be an important factor in these latter traits... and the crossing of genetic unlikes... produces heterosis for best crossbreeding.

Vanishing Point (1971)
Heterosis, or hybrid vigor... may be an important factor in these latter traits... and the crossing of genetic unlikes... produces heterosis for best crossbreeding.

Vanishing Point (1971)
Hybrid crops often exhibit heterosis, showing greater yield compared to their parent plants.
Farmers frequently rely on heterosis to improve crop resilience and productivity in agriculture.
The phenomenon of heterosis helps explain why some crossbred animals are stronger and healthier than their purebred counterparts.

Synonyms

hybrid vigor

vsheterosis

Specialized

1 6.1

Greater growth, health, or amount produced in young plants and animals from two different parents

is about the tendency to exhibit superior qualities rather than the observed results

overdominance

vsheterosis

Specialized

9.9

A case where a plant or animal with two different gene forms is healthier than those with two same forms

is about observed superior traits in crossbreds rather than a specific genetic cause

Surface Forms

heterosis singular

heteroses plural

Morphology

heterosis = hetero (opaque) = hetero + osis

Although built from 'hetero-' (different) + '-osis' (a condition), the specialized genetics meaning 'hybrid vigor' is technical and not inferable by an average learner from those parts.

Etymology

Heterosis comes from Greek parts hetero- meaning 'different', as in heterogeneous, and -osis meaning 'a condition'. So heterosis is the 'condition of difference' that helps you remember when offspring from two different parents often grow better or stronger than either parent.