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

  • [AIIMS 2008]
  • A

    reciprocal cross

  • B

    test cross

  • C

    dihybrid cross

  • D

    back cross

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$A$. Two or more alternative forms of a gene

$I$. Backcross
 $B$. Cross of $F_1$ progeny with homozygous recessive parents $II$. ploidy
$C$. Cross of $F_1$ progeny  with any of the parents $III$. Allele 
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  • [NEET 2024]

Do you think Mendel’s laws of inheritance would have been different in the characters that he choose were located on the same chromosome ?

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