Differentiate between.
Test cross and reciprocal cross

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When an $F_{1}$ individual is crossed with recessive parent, it is known as test cross. However, in reciprocal cross, same parents are used in two different experiments. ln one experiment, parent A is used as female, .and B as male, and in the other A is used as male and B as female.

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