Occasionally during meiosis, a mistake can happen whereby a gametemay receive zero or two sex chromosomes rather than one. Bridgesmade a cross between white-eyed female flies and red-eyed male flies.As you would expect, most of the offspring were red-eyed femalesand white-eyed males. On rare occasions, however, he found a whiteeyed female or a red-eyed male. These rare flies were not due to newgene mutations, but instead were due to mistakes during meiosis inthe parent flies. Consider the mechanism of sex determination in fruitflies and propose how this could happen. In your answer, describe thesex chromosome composition of the rare flies

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A mitochondrion is a cellular organelle that serves as the site for cellular respiration and energy production (ATP or Adenosine Triphosphate). It is a double-membrane-bound organelle and is only present in eukaryotic cells.