Question

In fruit flies, the allele for normal-sized wings (W) is dominant to the allele for small wings (w). A fly that has normal wings breeds with a fly that has small wings. Several offspring have small wings, and others have normal wings.

A. What are the genotypes of the 2 parental flies?
Normal wings __________
small wings __________

B. Two flies with small wings produce offspring. What type of wings will the offspring
have? Draw a punnett square to support your answer.

C. A short winged fly can be described -using words as what?

D. What type of inheritance is this called?

Answer 1

A. Normal Wings= Ww, Small Wings=ww

B. All offspring will have short wings because short wings trait is recessive.

w. w

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w| ww |ww|

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w|ww |ww |

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