What is the most likely method by which a gene produces red eyes in fruit flies?

Q: Certain genes determine sex, fertility, and viability in Drosophila, and mutations in these genes…

A: Drosophila shows various gene expressions in sex differences. They show sexual dimorphism in gene…

Q: What would be the most likely effect on fruit-fly development of a deletion in the nanos gene?

A: Drosophila melanogaster is a fly species in the family Drosophilidae. This fly is commonly called as…

Q: What type of cell is this and where are the genes located inside of this cell?

A: Cells are basic structural and functional units of life.There are two major types of cells -…

Q: How is it that an organism with 20K genes have 4x the number of proteins expressed?

A: The flow of genetic information from genes to proteins is encoded by the messenger RNA intermediate.…

Q: How much  is the weight of  1 copy of the human haploid genome  ?

A: The genome of an organism refers to the hereditary information, which is encoded in the DNA of the…

Q: cell is aneuploid, do you expect it to express a higher or lower level of the proteins encoded on…

A: Normally the cells are euploid which means that they are exact multiple of the haploid number.…

Q: how Ordered Tetrads Help Locate Genesin Relation to the Centromere?

A: A gene is a stretch of nucleotides present in the DNA. DNA or deoxyribonucleic acid is a polymer of…

Q: what is the Mechanism of DNA Replication in DrosophilaChromosomes?

A: DNA replication is the process in which DNA makes a copy of itself by copying a double-stranded DNA…

Q: What is mutation in yeast?

A: Yeast is a eukaryotic unicellular organism that belongs to the kingdom Fungi. These organisms are…

Q: Why is it that mutations in bicoid and nanos exhibit genetic maternaleffect in Drosophi, but…

A: Bicoid and Nanos are responsible for regulating the expression of genes that are responsible for…

Q: Describe the relationship between homeotic genes in Drosophila and in mice.

A: Homeotic genes are the regulatory genes that play an important role in the regulation of the…

Q: If a mother snail is heterozygous, Dd, which gene products will the oocyte receive?

A: The mom's genotype specifically influences her offspring's phenotype Broken rule: gene expression an…

Q: What would be the effect of deleting the Dnmt3 gene in honeybees?

A: Insects are any animal of the class Insecta. It comprises small, air-breathing arthropods having…

Q: What is the order and interlocus distance between these 3 genes? which gene is in the middle and…

A: In this genetics problem, we are given data on a cross involving three genes in Drosophila: Dichaete…

Q: Are queen and worker bees genetically different from each other?

A: Genetically different refers to the difference in the composition of the genetic material of the…

Q: Why is drosophila aconvenient animal for thestudy of linked genes?

A: Genetics is the branch of biology, which deals with the study of genes, their pattern of…

Q: If you wanted to produce a fly larvae with two head ends, which of the following would you do?…

A: The pattern formation in drosophila is a complex developmental event that is performed by…

Q: What are the specialized cells—eggs within the ovules of the female parent and sperm cells within…

A: All flowering plants are known as angiosperms . These plants undergo sexual reproduction. The…

Q: explain Position-effect variegation in Drosophila?

A: Mutation is defined as the permanent change or alterations happening in the sequence of the DNA of…