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Q. Test cross is used to

UP CPMTUP CPMT 2010Principles of Inheritance and Variation

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In genetics, a test cross, first introduced by Gregor Mendel, involves the breeding of a dominant trait individual with a recessive individual, in order to determine the zygosity of the former by analysing proportions of offspring with the recessive phenotype. It checks heterozygosity in $F _{1}$ generation.