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#Question id: 15836


You are interested in a new type of autosomal dominant mutation that gives purple eyes in Drosophila. You have a true-breeding purple-eyed line carrying a mutation that you call pr-1. You have isolated a second purple-eyed mutation that you call pr-2, which you have established in a true-breeding line that also carries a recessive marker st, which gives stubby legs. You cross a fly from the pr-1 line to a fly from the st, pr-2 line producing F1 females which you then cross to males from a true breeding st line (normal eyes). From this cross, 1000 progeny flies can be categorized into four different phenotypic classes:
                   
What is the phenotype of a pr-1 pr-2 double mutant?

#Unit 8. Inheritance Biology
  1. purple eyes
  2. normal eyes
  3. stubby legs
  4. Normal legs