In Drosophila, the X-linked recessive mutation vermillion (v) causes bright red eyes, in contrast to the...

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In Drosophila, the X-linked recessive mutation vermillion (v)causes bright red eyes, in contrast to the brick-red eyes caused bythe wild-type allele. A separate autosomal recessive mutation,brown (bw), causes flies to have brown eyes. Flies with bothmutations have no eye pigmentation and are white-eyed. Determinethe F1 and F2 phenotypic ratios for each sex from the followingcrosses:

(a) vermillion females X brown males

(b) wild-type females X white-eyed males

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Answerif we have one Xlinked one autosomal then it iseasier to treat the two genes separately combine the resultsat the enda vermillion females X brown malesfor vermillionv is    See Answer
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