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The Sex of the Fruit Fly Drosophila Melangaster Is Determined

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The sex of the fruit fly Drosophila melangaster is determined as follows: XX chromosomes give a female and XY give a male. The gene for bar eyes is recessive and located on the X chromosome. If you had a normal-eyed female and did not know whether she was homozygous or heterozygous, you could determine her genotype by mating her with


A) any kind of male.
B) normal-eyed males only.
C) bar-eyed males only.
D) homozygous, bar-eyed males only.

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