AP BIOLOGY

HEREDITY

MONOHYBRID CROSS

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
What is another name for “true breeding?”
A
Heterozygous
B
Purebred/Homozygous
C
Hybrid
D
Cross Pollinating
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -In the animal world, true-breeding organisms are also referred to as purebred.

Detailed explanation-2: -A true-breeding organism, sometimes also called a purebred (biology slang: pure line or true-breeding line), is an organism that always passes down certain phenotypic traits (i.e. physically expressed traits) to its offspring of many generations.

Detailed explanation-3: -A true breeding is a kind of breeding wherein the parents would produce offspring that would carry the same phenotype. This means that the parents are homozygous for every trait.

Detailed explanation-4: -A true-breeding plant is one that, when self-fertilized, only produces offspring with the same traits. True-breeding organisms are genetically identical and have identical alleles for specified traits. The alleles for these type of organisms are homozygous.

Detailed explanation-5: -A true breeding organism, sometimes also called a pure-bred, is an organism having certain biological traits which are passed on to all subsequent generations when bred with another true breeding organism for the same traits.

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