Write your answers on your paper. 1. In Drosophila flies, eye color is sex-linked. The allele for red eyes (XW) is dominant to the allele for white eyes (Xw). A male fly with red eyes XWY and a carrier female XW Xw. What is the probability that the female offspring will have white eyes? Show in punnett square. а. 0% d. 75% b. 25% е. 100% c. 50%

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1. In Drosophila flies, eye color is sex-linked. The allele for red eyes (XW) is
dominant to the allele for white eyes (Xw). A male fly with red eyes XWY and a
carrier female XW Xw.
What is the probability that the female offspring will have white eyes? Show in
punnett square.
а. 0%
d. 75%
b. 25%
е. 100%
c. 50%
Transcribed Image Text:|Write your answers on your paper. 1. In Drosophila flies, eye color is sex-linked. The allele for red eyes (XW) is dominant to the allele for white eyes (Xw). A male fly with red eyes XWY and a carrier female XW Xw. What is the probability that the female offspring will have white eyes? Show in punnett square. а. 0% d. 75% b. 25% е. 100% c. 50%
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