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NALT Concept Space
U.S. Department of Agriculture

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Concept information

  1. Research, Technology, Methods
  2. breeding
  3. breeding methods
  4. crossing
  5. testcrosses
  1. Fields of Study
  2. sexual reproduction
  3. breeding
  4. breeding methods
  5. crossing
  6. testcrosses

Preferred term

testcrosses

Type

  • Topic

Definition

  • Information A cross between an organism exhibiting the dominant phenotype for a certain trait, but whose genotype for that trait is unknown and an organism that is homozygous recessive for the trait so that the unknown genotype can be determined from that of the offspring.

    Source: NAL Thesaurus Staff

    Type: Concept definition

Broader concept

Synonyms

  • test crosses

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URI

https://lod.nal.usda.gov/nalt/30222

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