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true breeding ADJ

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True breeding pairs are rare in amphibians or reptiles, but fairly common with fish (e.g. discus) and especially birds.
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This is possible with doubled haploidy organisms because of their true breeding nature and because they can conveniently be produced in large numbers.
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Even among true breeding organisms, some variation due to genetic recombination or to mutation can produce a few off types.
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To carry out such a cross, each parent is chosen to be homozygous or true breeding for a given trait (locus).
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All parent organisms must be true breeding to properly carry out such an experiment.
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True breeding organisms are always homozygous for the traits that are to be held constant.
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These populations are reportedly true breeding.
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An organism is referred to as true breeding for each trait to which this applies, and the term true breeding is also used to describe individual genetic traits.
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