A pure bred female fruit fly with red eyes and normal bristles is crossed to a pure bred male fruit fly with white eyes and forked bristles. The resulting progeny consist of red eyed males with normal bristles and white females with regular bristles. Determine the mode of inheritance of each trait. Provide the genotypes for parental files and both sexes of the progeny with clearly defined allele designations.

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1. A pure bred female fruit fly with red eyes and normal bristles is crossed to a pure bred male fruit fly with white eyes and forked bristles. The resulting progeny consist of red eyed males with normal bristles and white females with regular bristles.

  • Determine the mode of inheritance of each trait.
  • Provide the genotypes for parental files and both sexes of the progeny with clearly defined allele designations.
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Mode of Inheritance 

It is the manner through which a genetic trait or disorder is passed from one generation to the other generation. Some examples are: Autosomal dominant, autosomal recessive, X-linked dominant, X-linked recessive etc.

 

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