Both eye color and leg length are inherited in a dominant-recessive fashion in fruit flies. Fruit fly wings can either be wildtype (P), or have purple eyes (p), and either wildtype (S) or have short legs (s). Fill in the Punnett Square for this scenario. If you cross a female […]
Mary’s grandmother slipped on a scatter rug and fell heavily to the floor. Her left lower limb was laterally rotated and noticeably shorter than her right, and when she attempted to get up, she winced with pain. Mary surmised that her grandmother might have “fractured her hip,” which later proved […]
Q1. When doing phunnet squares, in the question sometimes it doesnt say if the parents are homozygous or hetrozgous so then how do I found out what Alleles (letters) to put on the phunnet square? Q2. Discuss the relationship between growth hormone and insulin; are there complications associated with their […]
Q1. In Drosophila a cross was made between a yellow-bodied male with vestigial (not fully developed) wings and a wild-type female (brown body). The F1 generation consisted of wild-type males and wild-type females. F1 males and females were crossed, and the F2 progeny consisted of 16 yellow-bodied males with vestigial […]