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Q. A white pea plant is crossed a heterozygous violet pea plant. What will be characteristic of offspring?

NTA AbhyasNTA Abhyas 2020Principles of Inheritance and Variation

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In a typical test cross, an organism (pea plants here) showing a dominant phenotype (and whose genotype is to be determined) is crossed with the recessive parent instead of self-crossing. The progenies of such a cross can easily be analysed to predict the genotype of the test organism.
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