testcross

About 0.02 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. noun The breeding of an individual with a phenotypically recessive individual, in order to determine the zygosity of the former by analysing proportions of offspring phenotypes.
2. verb To breed an individual in this manner.

Similar words

progeny cross outcrosser tetratype crossability linebreeding intersex interbreeding incross crossbred

Often followed by

progeny of is performance progenies with to and in

Word family

testcrossed testcrosses testcrossing