Question #6423405Single Choice

Biology

Question

In fruit flies, the genes for body color (B: gray, b: black) and wing shape (V: normal, v: vestigial) are located on the same chromosome. A Punnett square shows the results of a test cross between a heterozygous fly (BbVv) and a homozygous recessive fly (bbvv):

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If no crossing-over occurs, what proportion of the offspring will have the parental phenotype (gray body, normal wings or black body, vestigial wings)?

Options

A
    1/4
B
    1/2
C
    3/4
D
    1/1

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