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Suppose That You Have Discovered a New Mutant in Drosophila

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Suppose that you have discovered a new mutant in Drosophila melanogaster. What kinds of genetic crosses should you do to determine if the allele causing the mutation is inherited as an autosomal dominant trait, an autosomal recessive trait, or a sex-linked trait?


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