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9 years ago
An insect species is discovered in which the heterogametic sex is unknown. An X-linked recessive mutation for reduced wing (rw) is discovered.


I just don't understand how the phenotypes match and how they cover each other up
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9 years ago
Heterogametic sex refers to the sex of a species in which the sex chromosomes are not the same. For example, in humans, males, with an X and a Y sex chromosome, would be referred to as the heterogametic sex, and females having two X sex chromosomes would be referred to as the homogametic sex.

However, in birds, and some reptiles, males have two Z sex chromosomes and so are the homogametic sex, while females, with one Z and one W chromosome, are the heterogametic sex. Among the insects, Lepidopterans (butterflies and moths) have heterogametic females, but in Drosophila, males are the heterogametic sex.
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If the female is the heterogamete, then she is the XY sex; for reduced wings, she is rw/-. If she mates with a male who is RW/RW, then the F1 progeny (either XX or XY, the second letter in each pair from the female) will be RW/rw (a male) or RW/- (a female). For F2, the RW/- females will give only normal progeny; the RW/rw males will give RW/RW males, RW/rw males, and rw/- females.

I'm too tired to do the reverse (for the heterogametic male), but you can use the same approach.
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