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INHERITENCE
LSE-03: LECTURE -2
02-02-2015
MONOHYBRID
CROSS
THE TESTCROSS
A testcross is a cross of an individual of unknown genotype,
usually expressing the dominant phenotype, with a known
homozygous recessive individual to determine the genotype of
the unknown individual.
REVIEW QUESTIONS
Why was Mendels approach to the study of heredity so
successful?
In cucumbers, orange fruit color (R) is dominant over cream
fruit color (r). A cucumber plant homozygous for orange
fruits is crossed with a plant homozygous for cream fruits.
The F1 are intercrossed to produce the F2. Give the
genotypes and phenotypes of the parents, the F1 and the
In summer squash, white fruit color (W) is dominant over
F2.
yellow fruit color (w) and disk-shaped fruit (D) is dominant
over sphere-shaped fruit (d). If a squash plant truebreeding for white, disk-shaped fruit is crossed with a plant
true-breeding for yellow, sphere-shaped fruit, what will the
phenotypic and genotypic ratios be for the F1and
F2generation?