Word: hybridize
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...fixing species. Then they mixed the nitrogen-fixers (now compatible with E. coli) with a strain of E. coli that has a particularly useful characteristic: unlike most bacteria, it can incorporate genetic material from another species. Out of the laboratory-induced union came a small but significant number of hybrid offspring with nitrogen-fixing ability. What is more, some of these crossbreeds could pass on the crucial nitrogen-fixing genes to future generations through ordinary fission...
Loot looks like an unlikely hybrid of the Marx Brothers, Agatha Christie and a training film for the Mattachine Society. Narizzano has directed the bad taste in bad taste, clumsily camping it up at every opportunity, blunting Orton's coruscating wit. That this comes through at all is owing less to Narizzano than to the play's admirable resiliency...
...think we do need to draw a distinction between what has historically been a coed institution and what has not. Yale for instance. Now Harvard is a special case, all along it has been a kind of hybrid institution...
Gielgud with straw hat and cigar plays Sissal as a lickerish hybrid of Winston Churchill and Malcolm Muggeridge. Cackling over the edge of a tub in which the Emperor is playing a nude scene, he tells Napoleon: "Talleyrand once told me you had four women in one night." This indeed is the stuff of history...
...with its long-planned space shuttle. To be built at a cost of at least $5.5 billion over the next six years, the system will be designed to transport at least a dozen passengers and cargo between orbiting space stations and the earth. The vehicle is to be a hybrid that looks something like a jet fighter, takes off like a rocket and lands like an ordinary plane...