Question

A student in genetics class is studying the inheritance patterns in fruit flies. He is looking at the traits for wing length, long versus short, and colorbrown versus gray. Using a dihybrid cross of two flies that were heterozygous for long wings and brown color. Long wings and Gray are dominant. How many offspring will have long wings and brown color?

Answer 1

Answer:

LLgg, Llgg , two out of 16

Explanation:

Given,

Dominant - Long wings and Gray color

Recessive - Short wings and Brown color

Let the allele for long wings be "L" and the allele for short wings be "l".

Let the allele for brown color be "g" and allele for gray color be "G"

Genotype of parents

LlGg

Gametes of the parent

LG, Lg, lG, lg

Dihybrid cross is between LlGg and LlGg

The offspring produces will be as follows -

LG        Lg         lG         lg

LG LLGG LLGg LlGG LlGg

Lg LLGg LLgg LlGg Llgg

lG LlGG LlGg llGG         llGg

lg LlGg Llgg         llGg         llgg

Offspring with long wings and brown color – LLgg, Llgg , two out of 16