TESTCROSS as NOUN

1. Meaning
   • 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
   Synonym(s)
   • test-cross (what does test-cross mean?)
   Hypernyms(s) testcross is a kind of… Example: animal is a hypernym of mammal, plant is a hypernym of flower
   • hybridization (what does hybridization mean?)
   • hybridisation (what does hybridisation mean?)
   • crossbreeding (what does crossbreeding mean?)
   • crossing (what does crossing mean?)
   • cross (what does cross mean?)
   • interbreeding (what does interbreeding mean?)
   • hybridizing (what does hybridizing mean?)