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How Test Crosses Reveal an Unknown Genotype

A test cross mates an unknown dominant-phenotype organism with a homozygous recessive one. Recessive offspring reveal heterozygosity, while an all-dominant finite sample provides probabilistic evidence for homozygosity.

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