• n.
    ⦿a cross between an organism whose genotype for a certain trait is unknown and an organism that is homozygous recessive for that trait so the unknown genotype can be determined from that of the offspring

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Lexical context

wn:part of speechnoun
ontolex:lexicalized sense
  1. enl:test-cross
  2. enl:testcross
wn:interlingual indexili:i39872

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skos:is in schemeOpen English WordNet
rdfs:labeltest-crosstestcross