XAVIER UNIVERSITY

ATENEO DE CAGAYAN

EXERCISE 1: VARIATION

PRESENTED TO THE BIOLOGY DEPARTMENT

XAVIER UNIVERSITY – ATENEO DE CAGAYAN

CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY

IN PARTIAL FULFILLMENT

OF THE REQUIREMENTS OF THE SUBJECT

BIOLOGY 104L –GENETICS LABORATORY

GROUP NUMBER: 1

DATE SUBMITTED:

05/27/2023

GROUP MEMBERS:

AGUSAN, GIAN MATTHEW

ARCEO, ANGELLE
GEPIGA, JOHN PATRICK
KHO, MARIAH YZZABELLE
LABIS, CHRISTIAN
YACAPIN, CRISTINA MAY
Table 1: Experimental Data of Monohybrid cross (Drosophila)
DATA F1 F2 TEST CROSS OR
RECIPROCAL
CROSS
Parental Strains XyX x XY XyX x XY XX x XyY
Date flies mated April 15, 2023 April 26, 2023 May 11, 2023
Date larvae appeared April 21, 2023 April 30, 2023 May 14, 2023
Date pupae appeared April 22, 2023 May 1, 2023 May 15, 2023
Date emergence of April 24, 2023 May 5, 2023 May 20, 2023
adults
No. of wild male flies 5 4 9
No. of wild female 6 7 13
flies
Total wild flies 11 11 22
No. of variant male 1 0 0
flies
Total Variant flies 1 0 0

Table 2: Parents and offspring, F1, F2, to F3 (test cross)

Parental Stains
MOTHER FATHER

F3 (Test Cross)
Figure 1.1 A wild type Drosophila melanogaster. Figure 1.2 A wild type vestigial wings
(mutant) Drosophila
melanogaster.

Analysis:
The mode of inheritance of the variant characteristic from all the cross is autosomal
recessive. The parental fruit flies passed down traits with the combination of their recessive alleles
which resulted to a variant characteristic. Since our chi-squared value is 0.36 which is significantly
less than the critical value, then we accept that the data observed are consistent with the expected
F2 ratio.

F2

(O-E)2
Phenotypes O E
E

Male Flies 4 5 0.20

Female Flies 7 6 0.16

Total 11 11 0.36