Usually means: Mating organism with homozygous recessive.
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  2. testcross: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
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Definitions from Wiktionary (testcross)

noun:  (genetics) The breeding of an individual with a phenotypically recessive individual, in order to determine the zygosity of the former by analysing proportions of offspring phenotypes.
verb:  (genetics) To breed an individual in this manner.

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