A cross involving contrasting expression of one trait is transferred to as monohybrid cross. For example, in order to learn inheritance of plant height, a tall pea plant was crossed with a dwarf one; all other traits were ignored.
Subsided is defined as calmed down or sunk to a lower level. When the noise of a crowd dies down, this is an example of when the noisesubsided. Verb. simple past tense and past participle of subside.
Reification is a fallacy of ambiguity, when an abstraction is treated as if it were a concrete real event or physical entity. In other words, it is the error of treating something that is not concrete, such as an idea, as a concrete thing. A common case of reification is the confusion of a model with reality: the map is not the territory. Reification is part of normal usage of natural language, as well as of literature, where a reified abstraction is intended as a figure of speech, and actuall