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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.

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