Sex-Linked Inheritance Problem Set 2

Problem 4: Genetic evidence for crossing over in male flies

If we mated the F1 female and male flies from the cross obtained in problem 3, what male phenotype in the F2 generation would be evidence that crossing over had occured during gamete formation?

Daughters were tan-bodied, red-eyed, heterozygous for both eye and body color. The sons were yellow-bodied, red-eyed hemizygous.

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