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What are 'true breeding lines' thatare used to study inheritance pattern of traits.

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True breeding lines are individuals that when undergoes self-fertilization, produces only offsprings that are identical to their parents. The alleles of these plants are homozygous. True breeding plants are used by Mendel to study the inheritance of traits from parents to next generation.

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