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Backcross

Mate a hybrid of the first generation with one of its parents.Mating between a hybrid organism and one of its parents.


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Genotype or type of allele for a character

in a testcross you do not use one of a parents. You use a recessive homozygous individual. If you cross it with one of the parents it is called a backcross..

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by MrMistery
Thu Feb 22, 2007 9:28 pm
 
Forum: Genetics
Topic: Genotype or type of allele for a character
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how can you identify the genotypes?

Just do a testcross and backcross..... :lol: Actually, you can do what Mithril suggest...um by the way Baikuza, do you know how to do a genetic test? :?

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by victor
Wed Oct 26, 2005 1:02 pm
 
Forum: Genetics
Topic: how can you identify the genotypes?
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BACKCROSS HELP

Be warned though, in a backcross that procent of 50% is strictly theoretical: in reality you will get procents close to that, but not quite... Also, if your population is not pancmictical than you can kiss your whole experiment bye-bye

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by MrMistery
Fri May 13, 2005 7:33 pm
 
Forum: Cell Biology
Topic: BACKCROSS HELP
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Views: 5661

BACKCROSS HELP

... answer. Back Crosses take an offspring and cross with a parent. So theres no way that the offspring could breed with it's brother or sister in a backcross problem. A female offspring can only cross wtih the male parent. And a male offspring can only cross with a female parent. You must take all ...

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by Cross Country Runner
Fri May 13, 2005 1:17 pm
 
Forum: Cell Biology
Topic: BACKCROSS HELP
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Ligers and Tigons oh my!

... totally sterile.” “Even those hybrids that produce normal gametes in one or both sexes are nevertheless unsuccessful”[9] said Mayr. When hybrids backcross to the parental species[10], they often produce genotypes of inferior viability (Ezzel 102). The life span of many hybrid big cats is short ...

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by Inuyasha
Tue May 10, 2005 9:55 pm
 
Forum: Zoology Discussion
Topic: Ligers and Tigons oh my!
Replies: 111
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