Question

define hybridization. list its any two advantages

Answer 1

Scientist Pauling introduced the revolutionary concept of hybridization in the year 1931. He described it as the redistribution of the energy of orbitals of individual atoms to give new orbitals of equivalent energy and named the process as hybridisation. In this process, the new orbitals come into existence and named as the hybrid orbitals.

Answer 2

Hybridization refers to a cross between genetic dissimilar plants/animals resulting in the formation of new plants/animals called as hybrids.

such new plants/animals will show the desirable characters of our choice