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Essentials of Genetics 9th Edition by Michael Palladino William Klug, Michael Cummings, Charlotte Spencer

Edition 9ISBN: 978-1292108865
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Essentials of Genetics 9th Edition by Michael Palladino William Klug, Michael Cummings, Charlotte Spencer

Edition 9ISBN: 978-1292108865
Exercise 16
While vermilion is X-linked in Drosophila and causes eye color to be bright red, brown is an autosomal recessive mutation that causes the eye to be brown. Flies carrying both mutations lose all pigmentation and are white-eyed. Predict the F 1 and F 2 results of the following crosses:
(a) vermilion females? ×? brown males
(b) brown females ×? vermilion males
(c) white females ×? wild males
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(a)The genotype of vermilion females is ...

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