A Test Cross Is a Mating of an Individual with an Unknown

question 78

Multiple Choice

A test cross is a mating of an individual with an unknown genotype and an individual that

• A)is heterozygous.
• B)is homozygous dominant.
• C)is homozygous recessive.
• D)has any known genotype.
• E)is the wild typE.

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