Integrated Principles of Zoology 14th Edition by Cleveland Hickman, Larry Roberts, Susan Keen, Allan Larson

Exercise 12

In Drosophila melanogaster, red eyes are dominant to white and the variation for this characteristic is on the X chromosome. Vestigial wings ( v ) are recessive to normal ( V ) for an autosomal gene. What will be the appearance of offspring of the following crosses: X W /X w V/v × X w /Y v/v, X w /X w V/v × X W /Y V/v.