近きん交こう系けい

noun, noun which may take the genitive case particle 'no'

inbred line; inbred strain

Technical term in genetics and laboratory animal science. Refers to a population produced by repeated inbreeding, resulting in high genetic uniformity.

• この実じっ験けんでは近きん交こう系けいのマウスを使し用ようした。

  In this experiment, we used mice from an inbred strain.