Refer to the Information and Figure Below to Answer the Following

question 10

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.

-A female with a paternal set of one orange and one long gene chromosome and a maternal set comprised of one blue and one short gene chromosome would be expected to produce which of the following types of eggs after meiosis?

• A) All eggs will have maternal types of gene combinations.
• B) All eggs will have paternal types of gene combinations.
• C) Half the eggs will have maternal and half will have paternal combinations.
• D) Each egg has a one-fourth chance of having either blue long, blue short, orange long, or orange short combinations.