2 A Drosophila fruit fly female lacking wing cross veins is mated with a male...

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2 A Drosophila fruit fly female lacking wing cross veins is mated with a male with normal wings with cross veins Female F progeny have normal wings but male F progeny have crossveinless wings a What explanation do you propose to account for this result Include a designation as to which trait is dominant and which recessive b One of the F females is mated with a male with normal wings What progeny phenotypes do you predict in what proportions c An F female progeny of the cross described in part b is chosen at random and mated with a crossveinless male This mating yields both crossveinless and normal winged flies What proportion of the offspring do you think had each phenotype and what were their sexes

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