Refer to the Information and Figure Below to Answer the Following

question 62

Multiple Choice

Refer to the information and figure below to answer the following questions.
A certain (hypothetical) organism is diploid, has either blue or orange wings as the consequence of one of its genes on chromosome 12, and has either long or short antennae as the result of a second gene on chromosome 19, as shown in the figure.

-If a female of this species has one chromosome 12 with a blue gene and another chromosome 12 with an orange gene, and has both number 19 chromosomes with short genes, which of the following combinations of genes will her eggs have?

• A) only blue short gene eggs
• B) only orange short gene eggs
• C) one half blue short and one half orange short gene eggs
• D) three fourths blue short and one fourth orange short gene eggs

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Definitions:

Sacajawea

A Lemhi Shoshone woman who is best known for her role as an interpreter and guide during the Lewis and Clark Expedition.

Lewis and Clark

Explorers Meriwether Lewis and William Clark, who led the early 19th-century expedition across the western United States to explore territories acquired in the Louisiana Purchase.

Shoshone Indian

A member of a Native American people originally from the western United States, including parts of California, Nevada, Utah, and Idaho.

Pacific Ocean

The largest and deepest of the Earth's oceanic divisions, extending from the Arctic in the north to the Southern Ocean in the south.