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What are 'true breeding lines' that are used to study inheritance pattern of traits in plants?
Solution
True breeding lines are those plants that have been generated through repeated self-pollination and have become homozygous for a particular trait. The trait is passed on to posterity if bred with another true breeding plant.
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