Missing stripes.[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] What do you get when you cross a zebra with a horse? It may sound like the start of a joke, but the offspring of these two animal species produces a zebroid ze·broid adj. Zebrine. n. The hybrid offspring of a zebra and a horse. , like this one named Eclyse, who recently became a popular sight at a German safari park. Eclyse got her mixed-up look because she inherited physical characteristics from both her zebra morn and horse dad. Zebra stripes A packaging device that allows quick alignment of electronic devices on a printed circuit board. It is a small rubber strip with carbon bands running around it. It allows contact to be made from the pads on the board to the pads on the device by whichever bands happen to line up at both points. are a dominant trait dominant trait n. An inherited character determined by a dominant gene. Also called dominant character. Dominant trait , so zebroids are usually born with black stripes from head to hoof hoof, horny epidermal casing at the end of the digits of an ungulate (hoofed) mammal. In the even-toed ungulates, such as swine, deer, and cattle, the hoof is cloven; in the odd-toed ungulates, such as the horse and the rhinoceros, it is solid. . But Eclyse was born with unusual stripe-free sections of her coat. That's because her father passed on a dominant trait of his own: white patches. Eclyse inherited her dad's gene, or factor that controls R for traits, for all-white areas. This overrode o·ver·rode v. Past tense of override. her mom's gene for stripes in some places: Besides their stripes, zebroids also inherit their zebra parent's wild personality. So visitors to the safari park can admire Eclyse from afar, but they wouldn't want to saddle her up for a ride. |
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