A female fruit fly with singed bristles was mated with a male from a true-breeding wild-type...

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A female fruit fly with singed bristles was mated with a malefrom a true-breeding wild-type stock with long bristles. All of theF1 females had wild-type long bristles and all of the F1 males hadsinged bristles. If the F1 flies are intercrossed, the expectedratio of long to singed bristles in the F2 flies is

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  • 3:1 in both sexes.

  • 3:1 in females, while all the males will have singedbristles.

  • 1:1 in both sexes.

  • 1:1 in females, while all the males will have singedbristles.

  • 1:0 in both sexes (i.e., males and females will all have longbristles).

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The bristle length gene is inherited in an X linked recessive pattern where the wild type is long bristles and the recessive Xl Xl is the recessive pattern showing signed    See Answer
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