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Inheritance and genetic crosses

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Figure 1 shows two phenotypes of the fruit fly (Drosophila melanogaster).

Figure 1: Drosophila melanogaster phenotypes

The normal (long) wing phenotype of Drosophila melanogaster is dominant to the vestigial (short) wing phenotype and is not sex-linked.

Explain how a geneticist could use a long-winged fruit fly and a vestigial-winged fruit fly to show that the long-winged allele is dominant to the vestigial-winged allele.

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