XII Bio terminology

Backcross :- Crosses between F1  offsprings with either of the two parents (hybrid) are known as back cross.
When  F1  offsprings are crossed with the dominant parents all the F2  offsprings develop dominant character.
Plant and animal breeder use back cross to bring desirable symptoms to the homozygous stage.
Example :- A cross between heterozygous F1  hybrid with homozygous tall pea plant products all Tall offsprings. But only 50% of them are all homozygous and the other 50% are heterozygous tall.



Test cross :- The test cross is a cross between heterozygous F1  hybrid and the double recessive homozygous.
The test cross is used to determine whether the individuals exhibiting dominant character are homozygous or heterozygous.

Example :- A cross between tall heterozygous F1  hybrid with dwarf homozygous recessive (P1 ) produces tall and dwarf in equal proportion indicating that F1  hybrids are heterozygous.



Genotype :- The term genotype designates the genetic make up of an organism which determines the characters.

Example :- In F2 generation of Tall and Dwarf pea plants, the tall plants have two types of genetic composition. 1/3rd of them are homozygous TT and 2/3rd heterozygous Tt. TT and Tt is the genotype of the tall plants.

Phenotype :- Phenotype is the appeearance of an individual like form, sex, colour and behaviour etc.

Example :- In F2  generation of Tall and Dwarf pea plants, the tall plants have two types of genetic composition. 1/3rd of them are homozygous TT and 2/3rd heterozygous Tt. The tall and dwarf characters are their phenotypes.

Homozygous :-  Every organism possesses two genes for every character, if in an organism  the genes for a particular character are identical it is said to be pure or homozygous for that character.
Example :- Tall plants with TT or dwarf plants with tt are homozygous. They produce only one type of gametes.
Heterozygous :- The organism possesses contrasting genes of a pair. It receives two different alleles for the same  character from its two parents.
Example :- Tall plants with Tt will be heterozygous. These produce two types of gamets T and t.

Differences between Homozygous and Heterozygous


                Homozygous 
 Heterozygous
 1.
 Possess identical alleles of a gene. Eg. TT

 Possess dissimilar or contrasting alleles of a gene.
Eg. Tt

 2.
Produce only one type of gametes.
Eg. T

 Produce two types of gametes.
Eg. T and t

 3.
Breed true to the particular character.
Eg. All the offsprings possess the same genotype and  phenotype when such parents are self-pollinated.
Produce three difference genotypes when self-pollinated which may have two or three different phenotypes.

Allele :- Allele is a Greek word which means 'belonging to one another'.
Alleles are a pair of genes representing the two alternatives of the same character and located at the same locus in the homologous chromosomes.
Example :- In a gene pair Tt, T is present on one chromosome and t on the other homologue.

Dominant and Recessive :-
A heterozygous possesses two contrasting genes or alleles but only one of the two is able to expess itself, while the other remains hidden.
The gene which gains expression in F1  hybrid is known as dominant gene, while its allele is unable to expess itself in presence of the dominant gene is the recessive gene.

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When two homologous individuals with one or more sets of contrasting characters are crossed the characters that appear in the F1  hybrid are dominant characters and those do not appear in F1  are recessive characters.





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