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While vermilion is X-linked in Drosophila and causes the eye color to be bright red, brown...

While vermilion is X-linked in Drosophila and causes the eye color to be bright red, brown is an autosomal recessive mutation that causes the eye to be brown. Flies carrying both mutations lose all pigmentation and are white-eyed. Predict the F1 and F2 results of the following crosses:

(a) vermilion females × brown males


(b) brown females × vermilion males


(c) white females × wild-type males

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