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What does interbreed mean?

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  1. To breed or reproduce within an isolated community.
  2. To breed or reproduce within a heterogenous community, the products of which produce hybrids.
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He said that two organisms belonged to the same species if they are able to interbreed and produce fertile offspring.
It is part of a complex of closely related gull species that interbreed readily.
This helps explain why the success of hybrids is so variable and also why some species can, and others cannot, interbreed.
Because they are free to interbreed, the wild stock is of more or less mixed origin.
The biological definition of a species states that if two races interbreed they belong in the same species.
Organisms from distinct but closely related species may be able to interbreed.

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