An offspring or descendant combining ancestry from distinguishable parental lineages. A hybrid can be viable and fertile; its existence alone neither proves nor disproves strong reproductive isolation in natural biological populations.
Crossing between genetically distinct lineages or populations. It can introduce combinations of alleles into descendants and contribute to gene flow or hybrid speciation. This process is distinct from DNA hybridization, the pairing of complementary nucleic-acid strands.
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