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Q. White eye is a sex-linked recessive character in Drosophila. In a cross involving white eyed female with normal male, what are the phenotypes in F1 generation

COMEDKCOMEDK 2009Principles of Inheritance and Variation

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The white eyed 'femalernust carry the allele for white on both X chromosomes as white eye is a recessive trait. A cross between white eyed female and normalmale can be shown as:

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