Normal fruit flies have red eyes. Flies with mutations that block the function of the X-linked white gene have white eyes. The wild-type allele is completely dominant to mutant alleles. A white-eyed female fruit fly is mated to a red-eyed male. One of their hundreds of female progeny is white-eyed. This white-eyed daughter likely arose from nondisjunction of the sex chromosomes during ________ in the ________.
A) meiosis I; mother
B) meiosis II; mother
C) meiosis I; father
D) meiosis II; father
E) meiosis I or II; mother
E) meiosis I or II; mother
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What will be an ideal response?
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A. carbon dioxide B. nitrogen C. oxygen D. ions
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