In a certain species of fly, eye color is designated by the W+ and w alleles, with the W+ allele being dominant. Typical eye color is red for these flies, while a rarer white color variant exists. In this species, W+ is the ________ and w is a ________.

Fill in the blank(s) with the appropriate word(s).


wild type ; mutant

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