Question

In Morgan's testcross of a gray-bodied, long-winged heterozygous female Drosophila with a homozygous recessive black-bodied, vestigial-winged male, the following offspring were obtained:________

1) 965 gray body,
2) long wing;
3) 944 black body,
4) vestigial wing;
5) 206 gray body,
6) vestigial wing;
7) 185 black body,
8) long wing.
9) focusing only on the recombinant classes (gray body, vestigial wing and black body, long wing),
10) the numbers of offspring of each type are similar (206 and 185).
What accounts for the similar number of offspring of each recombinant phenotype?

Answer 1

The answer is the crossing over between chromossomes is reciprocal.

Step-by-step explanation:

Crossing over between chromossomes is reciprocal, so whenever a recombinant chromosome of one type is produced, there is a recombinant of the opposite type that is also produced.