Hybrid Vigor

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Definitions of Hybrid vigor on the Web:

increased size or fitness of a hybrid, generally a results of its heterozygosity.
www.csupomona.edu/~jcclark/classes/bio406/glossary.html

The production of an exceptionally vigorous and/or productive hybrid progeny from a directed cross between two pure-breeding plant lines. A synonym for heterosis.
www.sustainableag.net/glossary_e-i.htm

An increase in the performance of hybrids over that of purebreds, most noticeably in traits such as fertility and survivability.
www.alpacas.com/AlpacaLibrary/GlossaryGL.aspx

Increased vigor or growth associated with a combination of two dissimilar parents. Caused by the masking of deleterious recessive alleles or the positive interaction of two dissimilar alleles at the same locus.
www.agls.uidaho.edu/cerealsci/vocabulary.htm

Heterosis is increased strength of different characteristics in hybrids; the possibility to obtain a "better" individual by combining the virtues of its parents.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hybrid_Vigor :laugh2:
 
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