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Chapter 11, Problem 10TYU
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The way in which a true breeding variety of cat can be developed and the method to determine that the curl allele is a dominant or recessive and how it can be checked if they are true breeding or not.
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True breeding varieties are the parents that will produce the offspring depicting the same
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