Step 1: Identify the dominant and the recessive alleles. Parents Black with vest

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Step 1: Identify the dominant and the recessive alleles. Parents Black with vestigal wings b b vg vg Wild Type (gray with normal wings) Black. Gray. Black Wild Type Vestigial Vestigial Normal Offspring Expected Parental phenotypes Recombinant phenotypes observed 05044 206163 185 In fruit flies, the signed is used to indicate the "normal" or wild-type phenotype. Based ch the diagram, which alleles are dominant? Hint: look at the parent flies: how many b alleles does it take to have a fly with black body? How many be alleles does the wild-type have? Gray bodies (b+)& vestigial wings g OGray bodies (b+)&normal; wings t) Black bodies tai&normail; wings (vg Black bodies ttil &vestigial; wings (ivl Cannot be determined from the information provided

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Well based on the diagram the dominant alleles are the wild types ie. Grey body with the Normal wings (b+vg+)

But still it can not be predicted with so much accuracy.

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