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To determine if a particular plant is homozygous or heterozygous, you would have to test cross with a

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In order to figure out if an individual(for a specific gene) is heterozygous or homozygous dominant(because the phenotypes are the same) you’d test cross it with a homozygous recessive.

If all the offspring have the dominant phenotype, then ur plant(individual) is homo dominant. But if there are any offspring with recessive phenotype(specifically 50% of them) then ur plant is heterozygous.

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