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In fruit flies, sons of a cross between a white-eyed male and a red-eyed female always have red eyes. true O false

          In fruit flies, sons of a cross between a white-eyed male and a red-eyed female always have red eyes. true O false
        

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Eye color in fruit flies is sex-linked. The wild-type allele is red and is dominant to the recessive white color. A male fruit fly with red eyes is crossed with a female with white eyes. Which of the following is true about the offspring of this cross? a. All males will have red eyes b. All females will have white eyes c. All males will have white eyes d. There is only a 50% chance that females will have red eyes

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00:01 Okay, we're looking across between some fruit flies.
00:04 We see it's sex -linked, and the wild type is red, and it's dominant to recessive white.
00:11 We have a cross between a male fruit fly with red eyes and a female with white eyes.
00:17 What's the chance? what's going to be true? a, all males will have red eyes.
00:23 B, all females will have white eyes.
00:26 C, all males will have white eyes.
00:28 Or d, there's a 50 % chance that females will have red eyes.
00:33 Okay.
00:34 So if it's sex -linked, that means we're looking at something on the x chromosome here.
00:38 So the male has the red wild type, which is dominant.
00:45 So he's going to have xw, y, that's his genotype.
00:50 And he's been crossed with a white -eyed female, so she's going to be xw.
00:55 Xw...
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