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What Do You Understand by Monohybrid Cross?

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What do you understand by monohybrid cross?
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Monohybrid cross is one where the parents used for hybridization differ in only one pair of contrasting characters or alleles.

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Chapter 3: Principles of Genetics - Exercise 1 [Page 35]

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Frank Biology Part 2 [English] Class 10 ICSE
Chapter 3 Principles of Genetics
Exercise 1 | Q 10 | Page 35

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