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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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Criteria for selecting the organism are : (i) Shorter life spanof an organism (ii) They should bear large number of progeny. (iii) Clear differentiation of sex/traits(easily identified traits) (iv) Many type of hereditary variations (v) availability of pure lines.
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