What Is The Term That Is Used To Refer To The Genotypes Of Offspring From Two Individuals?

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What Mendel referred to as a masked factor, we now call a _____ trait."

 

 As the names suggest, terms such as the ‘genetic cross’ and ‘genetic cross breeding’ are used to describe the genotypes of offspring from two individuals. This term refers to a process and the genotypes originating from the two individuals with reference to the contribution of genes to the offspring.

 

 In Mendelian genetics the ‘Punnett square’ is commonly utilized to draw the probable genotypic and phenotypic proportions of the offspring in cross breeding.

 2. ‘A masked factor’ which Mendel termed it is what we know today as the ‘recessive trait. ‘