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4.Principles of Inheritance and Variation
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Mating of an organism to a double recessive in order to determine whether it is homozygous or heterozygous for a character under consideration, is called
A
Reciprocal cross
B
Test cross
C
Dihybrid cross
D
Back cross
Solution
Test cross is the cross of an individual with its homolozygous recessive parent. In other words, we can say that it is a specialized back cross of $F_{1}$-hybrid with it's homozygous recessive parents in order to determine whether it is homozygous or heterozygous for a character.
Standard 12
Biology