INTRODUCTION Drosophelia flies have four chromosomes one of which is the sex chromosome.

Each of the chromosomes have certain genes/traits that can be lethal to the offspring if they are in an environment that does not favor that trait. If a gene is on the sex chromosome then the trait is more easily inherited by one gender than it is for the other. Each gene has two alleles which make it possible for an f1 offspring to not show a trait but their children to show it. if there were not multiple alleles for genes nearly everyone would look the same Each gene has a certain place on a chromosome and crossing over occurs in prophase I of meiosis where the same sections of the same number chromosome switches to the other parent chromosome, this produces great amounts of variety. If the trait that are crossed are recessive offspring of the parent can have a number of outcome pheno/genotypes depending on which chromosome is used to create the offspring. In this lab my partners and I will digitally select traits of fruit flies to see what their offspring and their grand offspring will look like due to having certain recessive alleles of their parents. We will test mendelan ratios and see if they apply to sex chromosome genes. This lab will test how genes are passed from one generation to another. CONCLUSION If my partners and I had a wild type fly, no matter which parent it was, all of the F1 generation would have the dominant characteristic and have the phenotype of a wild type fly, however if the other parent was not completely wild type, they would also be a carrier for the recessive trait, and the trait would most likely show up in the F2 generation with a 3:1 ratio of wild type phenotype to the recessive characteristic. This ratio would vary from the experiment we would take two parents and give them one mutation each, it was very important to pick genes that controlled traits on the same chromosomes, the F1 generation would show up with a 9:3:3:1 Mendelian ratio.

Fly Mating Lab Allie Duchin, Noah Gentry, and Kofi Nyarko 12-11-11