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Suppose You Discover a New Species of Worm That Exists

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Suppose you discover a new species of worm that exists in two forms-slimy and non-slimy.You find that mating slimy females with non-slimy males produces offspring consisting of slimy males and non-slimy females,whereas mating non-slimy females with slimy males produces offspring of both sexes that are all slimy.You would conclude that the _________ allele is dominant and that ________ are the heterogametic sex (the sex with two different sex chromosomes) in this species of worm.


A) slimy;females
B) slimy;males
C) non-slimy;females
D) non-slimy;males
E) impossible to determine without further information

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