You have set up a fly cross between red-eyed male flies and white-eyed female flies. Several days later, you look at the F1 progeny to examine the eye phenotypes. You notice that all of the F1 males have white eyes and all of the F1 females have red eyes. These observations tell you that the gene for red eye color is most likely:

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