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The genes for light eyes lt; light and straw bristles stw; straware tightly linked on chromosome 2 in Drosophila melanogaster.The Malpighian tubes of lt larvae and adults are maternally affected in that Malpighian tubes of lt/lt organisms,whose mothers were lt+/lt and have more yellow pigment than those from lt/lt mothers.There is no maternal effect associated with the straw locus.Give the phenotypes of the offspring from the following crosses. The genes for light eyes lt; light and straw bristles <i>stw; straw</i>are tightly linked on chromosome 2 in <i>Drosophila </i>melanogaster.The Malpighian tubes of lt larvae and adults are maternally affected in that Malpighian tubes of lt/lt organisms,whose mothers were lt<sup>+</sup>/lt and have more yellow pigment than those from lt/lt mothers.There is no maternal effect associated with the straw locus.Give the phenotypes of the offspring from the following crosses.


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