Vestigial wing is a recessive autosomal mutation in the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster. Wild-type flies have red eyes

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Vestigial wing is a recessive autosomal mutation in the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster. Wild-type flies have red eyes

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Vestigial wing is a recessive autosomal mutation in the fruit
fly Drosophila melanogaster. Wild-type flies have red eyes, but
another mutation, an X-linked recessive mutation causes white eyes.
You cross a parental generation of males with vestigial wings with
females that have white eyes.
1) What phenotypic ratio would you expect in the F1 generation
from such a cross? What phenotypes do you observe in these flies?
(e.g. males with red eyes and wild-type wings).
2) What phenotypic ratio would you expect in the F2 generation?
What phenotypes do you observe in these flies?
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