In one set of experiments, Calvin Bridges crossed white-eyed female fruit flies with red-eyed males. Some of the offspring were white-eyed females. These individuals, he demonstrated, had the genotype _____, which occurred because of _____ during meiosis

A. XXX / nondisjunction
B. XXO / independent assortment
C. XXY / random segregation
D. XXO / nondisjunction
E. XXY / nondisjunction


E

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