Gujarati
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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

(AIIMS-2008)

Solution

In genetics, a test cross, first introduced by Mendel, is used to determine if an individual exhibiting a dominant trait is homozygous or heterozygous for that trait. Test crosses involve breeding the individual in question with another individual that expresses a recessive version of the same trait. If all offspring display the dominant phenotype, the individual in question is homozygous dominant; if the offspring display both dominant and recessive phenotypes, then the individual is heterozygous. In some sources, the “test cross” is defined as being a type of back cross between the recessive homozygote and $F_1$ generation.

Standard 12
Biology

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