The rosy (ry) gene of Drosophila encodes an enzymecalled xanthine dehydrogenase. Flies homozygous forry mutations exhibit a rosy eye color. Heterozygousfemales were made that had ry41 Sb on one homologand Ly ry564 on the other homolog, where ry41 andry564 are two independently isolated alleles of ry. Ly[Lyra (narrow) wings] and Sb [Stubble (short) bristles] are dominant mutant alleles of genes to the left and right of ry, respectively. These females arenow mated to males homozygous for ry41. Out of100,000 progeny, 8 have wild-type eyes, Lyra wings, andStubble bristles, while the remainder have rosy eyes.a. What is the order of these two ry mutations relativeto the flanking genes Ly and Sb?
The rosy (ry) gene of Drosophila encodes an enzyme
called xanthine dehydrogenase. Flies homozygous for
ry mutations exhibit a rosy eye color. Heterozygous
females were made that had ry41 Sb on one homolog
and Ly ry564 on the other homolog, where ry41 and
ry564 are two independently isolated alleles of ry. Ly
[Lyra (narrow) wings] and Sb [Stubble (short) bristles] are dominant mutant alleles of genes to the left and right of ry, respectively. These females are
now mated to males homozygous for ry41. Out of
100,000 progeny, 8 have wild-type eyes, Lyra wings, and
Stubble bristles, while the remainder have rosy eyes.
a. What is the order of these two ry mutations relative
to the flanking genes Ly and Sb?
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