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Keywords: Hybrid, Parent, Homozygous, Genotype, Phenotype

Related Terms: Dominant, Heredity, Mendelian, Prepotent, Recessive, Heterosis, Hybrid Vigor, Heterozygote, Heterozygous, Homozygous, Monohybrid Cross, Dominant Inheritance, Alleles, Mendelian Inheritance, Dihybrid Cross, Autosomal Dominant, Codominance, Codominant Alleles, Monohybrid, Homozygote, Dihybrid, Dominance, Autosomal Recessive, Incomplete Penetrance, Recessive Inheritance, Recessive Gene, Codominant, Congenic, Dominant Allele, Dominant Gene, Genetic Heterogeneity, Overdominance, Incomplete Dominance, Backcross, Testcross, Outbreeding, Strain, Test Cross, Recessive Allele, Punnett Square, Heterozygosity, Reciprocal Crosses, Dominant Trait, Homozygosity, F1 Hybrid, Recessive Trait, Outcross, Phenocopy, Inbred Strain, Complex Trait

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The cross of a hybrid to one of the parental types.

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a cross of a hybrid with one of its true-breeding parental strains

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See Rear cross.

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The cross of an F1 hybrid to either of its parents (see F1 below).

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Mating of dominant phenotype with a homozygous recessive. This type of mating will determine the genotype of the dominant parent: if dominant parent is AA then AA x aa will result in 100% Aa. If dominant parent is Aa then Aa x aa will result in 50% Aa and 50% aa.

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