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Mating two true-breeding individuals with different traits is called:
AHarmonisation
BHybridisation
CHydrogenation
DHomogenisation
Answer & Solution
Correct answer: B. Hybridisation
1. Each parent breeds true for its own version of a trait.
2. Crossing them produces offspring carrying both.
3. That cross is a hybridisation.
_Source: OpenStax Biology 2e, Chapter 12, Mendel's Experiments and Heredity._
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