Drosophila Lab Report

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Drosophila is a fly species that is used in genetics. Since Drosophila goes through life cycles extremely quickly, it is one of the best specimens to use in a multiple generation experiment. The purpose of this experiment is to follow the genetic phenotype of the offspring and determine the genotype, which will most likely predominately be the wild type phenotype with a few recessive traits. To conduct the experiment, we first cross the parents, wild type with sepia eyes and vestigial wings or black body with vestigial wings. The offspring from that cross is expected to be 100% wild type and the following cross between the F1 generation is expected to be 9:3:3:1. For the chi square analysis, the results accept the sepia vestigial hypothesis

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