Question

True breeding red eyed Drosophila flies with plain thaxes were crossed with pink eyed flies with striped thoraxes.Red eyed plain thorax X Pink eye striped thorax., the F1 flies were then test crossed against double recessive. The following F2 generation resulted from the cross.What percentage of recombinants resulted from the rest cross:

Answer 1

Answer:

Red eyed striped thorax and pink eyed plain thorax flies are recombinants. Out of 200 flies, 28 are recombinants. Therefore percentage of recombinants is 14.