Genetics: From Genes to Genomes
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Chapter 7, Problem 16P
In 1967, J. B. Jenkins treated wild-type male Drosophila with the mutagen ethylmethane sulfonate (EMS) and mated them with females homozygous for a recessive mutation called dumpy that causes shortened wings. He found some F progeny with two wild-type wings, some with two short wings, and some with one short wing and one wild-type wing. In a second cross, when he mated single F flies with two short wings to dumpy homozygotes, he found, surprisingly, that only a fraction of these matings produced all short-winged progeny.
| a. | Explain these results in light of the mechanism of action of EMS shown in Fig. 7.14. |
| b. | Should the short-winged progeny of the second cross have one or two short wings? Why? |
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