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sweetangel143 sweetangel143
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8 years ago
I Need help to understand this question please help

1. The colour of eyes in fruit flies is determined by a gene on the X chromosome with two alleles.

    XR = red eyes;         Xr = white eyes

Cross a red eye male to a white eye female. Write out the Punnet square of the cross. 2 marks

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The colour of eyes in fruit flies is determined by a gene on the X chromosome with two alleles.

    XR = red eyes;         Xr = white eyes

Cross a red eye male to a white eye female. Write out the genotypes, phenotypes, and sex of the offspring. 2 marks

if someone could just explain it id be soo extremely happy thank you
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8 years ago
Found this online Undecided

Female: Xr Xr
Male: XR XXRr XXRr

Y XYr XYr

This means that the offspring could either be Females with red eyes (50% XXRr) or males with whites eyes (50% XYr).
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8 years ago
thanks Slight Smile
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