A male fly with the whiteeye phenotype was crossed with a fe
A male fly with the white-eye phenotype was crossed with a female fly with red-eye phenotype. (Nomenclature: w+ is wildtype, w- is white eye allele, y represents the y chromosome) The following are numbers obtained, from the cross, for the phenotypes observed in the F1 generation: 99 males, red eye; 101 males, white eye; 99 females, red eye; 104 females, white eye Using this information what is the genotype of the P1 generation?
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Genotype Number
wild-type (not paralyzed, red eyes) - 44
paralyzed, cinnabar eyes - 41
not paralyzed, cinnabar eyes- 7
paralyzed, red eyes- 8
