In fruit flies,the recessive pr and cn mutations cause brown and bright-red eyes,respectively (wild-type flies have brick-red eyes) .The double mutant pr cn combination has orange eyes.A female who has wild-type eyes is crossed to an orange-eyed male.Their progeny have the following distribution of eye colours:
Which classes are the parental types?
A) wild-type and orange
B) brown and bright-red
C) wild-type and brown
D) bright-red and orange
E) There is no way to determine this.
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