Genetics: Analysis and Principles 5th Edition by Robert Brooker

Exercise 49

A female fruit fly has one normal X chromosome and one X chromosome with a deletion. The deletion is in the middle of the X chromosome and is about 10% of the entire length of the X chromosome. If you stained and observed the chromosomes of this female fly in salivary gland cells, draw a picture of the polytene arm of the X chromosome. Explain your drawing.