✅ The verified answer to this question is available below. Our community-reviewed solutions help you understand the material better.
You identify an orange mutant of Drosophila. You obtain a true breeding orange-bodied line and a true breeding wildtype bodied line.
You perform a reciprocal cross and find:
Female orange x male wildtype: All progeny orange bodied
Female wildtype x male orange: All progeny orange bodied
How would you express the wildtype and mutant alleles, respectively?
Note: pay attention to the case of the letters.