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The female fruit fly lays 400 eggs every 16 days.

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Suppose that a gray fruit fly heterozygous for the alleles for body color is crossed with one that has a black body What percentage of the offspring would you expect to have black bodies?

50


Why was Thomas Morgan and his work with fruit flies important?

fruit flies take a long time to produce offspringI think the above er may meant to have said that they do NOT take a long time to produce offspring. Fruit flies have long been a favorite test subject for evolutionary scientists because of their fast gestation period and the ease of genetic manipulation of them.Because the Drosophila Melanogaster are a good subject for many reasons one is that it only has four pairs of chromosomes and they are easy to see since they are huge for such a small fly. Also it reproduces quickly is inexpensive to feed and can be raised in small jars or vials . in addition, it is easy to tell the male from the female


How many chromosomes are in a somatic cell of a fruit fly?

Four each.If an organism is diploid, its cells contain two sets of chromosomes, one set from each parent. The fruit fly (Drosophila) is diploid.


In fruit flies gray body color is dominant over black body color Suppose that a gray fruit fly heterozygous for the alleles for body color is crossed with one that has a black body What percentage?

50%


How many offspring does asexual reproduction produce?

There are many different species that reproduce asexually, and the rate of reproduction depends upon the species. When an amoeba undergoes binary fission, it produces just one offspring at a time.

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