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A person has to perform crosses for the purpose of studying inheritance of a few traits/characters. What should be the criteria for selecting the organisms?

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(i)Organisms should have shorter life span.
(ii)They should bear large progeny.
(iii)Easy to handle and rear.
(iv)Easily identified traits.
(v) Availability of homozygous dominant and recessive pure lives.
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