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  4. In fruit flies, long wing is dominant to vestigial wing. When heterozygous long-winged flies were crossed with vestigial winged flies, 192 offspring were produced. Of these 101 had long wings and 91 had vestigial wings If an exact Mendelian ratio had been obtained, then the number of each phenotype would have been long-winged vestigial-winged (a) 64 128 (b) 96 96 (c) 128 64 (d) 192 0

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Q. In fruit flies, long wing is dominant to vestigial wing. When heterozygous long-winged flies were crossed with vestigial winged flies, $192$ offspring were produced. Of these $101$ had long wings and $91$ had vestigial wings
If an exact Mendelian ratio had been obtained, then the number of each phenotype would have been
long-winged vestigial-winged
(a) 64 128
(b) 96 96
(c) 128 64
(d) 192 0

Principles of Inheritance and Variation

Solution:

Correct answer is (b) b