Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun testcross

1 sense of testcross

Sense 1
testcross, test-cross -- (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)
       => hybridization, hybridisation, crossbreeding, crossing, cross, interbreeding, hybridizing -- ((genetics) the act of mixing different species or varieties of animals or plants and thus to produce hybrids)