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In a test cross, the dominant-expressing organism is crossed with an organism that is homozygous recessive for the same characteristic.
From Textbooks • Jun. 9, 2022
In one quarter of their offspring, we would expect to observe individuals that are homozygous recessive for the nonfunctional allele.
From Textbooks • Jun. 9, 2022
Thesaurus
Possible Synonyms
- pure recessive
- expressing a recessive trait
- aa genotype
- lacking a dominant allele
Possible Antonyms
- possessing at least one dominant allele
- homozygous dominant
- Aa or AA genotype
- expressing a dominant trait
- heterozygous
