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What is the primary purpose of performing a test cross in genetics?

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प्रश्न

What is the primary purpose of performing a test cross in genetics?

पर्याय

  • To create new mutations in the organism being studied

  • To introduce desirable traits from one breeding line into another

  • To determine whether a dominant phenotype individual is homozygous or heterozygous

  • To produce all dominant offspring in the F₁ generation

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उत्तर

A test cross is specifically designed to determine the genotype of an individual showing a dominant phenotype by crossing it with a homozygous recessive individual. The resulting offspring phenotype ratios reveal whether the dominant parent was homozygous (TT) or heterozygous (Tt).

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