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Thursday, March 01, 2007

Week 7: 26 February-1 March

Here are the results of the recent fly cross for all of the lab sections. There are a few errors in the results, largely due to experimenter error: a few groups did not clear the bottles of the parentals before the F1s eclosed. We'll make very sure that that mistake isn't repeated with the next cross.


Results for the ♀ wmf x ♂ +++ cross:

PhenotypeTotal
♂ +++2
♂ wmf69
♀ +++111
♀ wmf0

Note that the progeny in blue are the F1 flies that we are using for our next cross.


Results for the ♀ +++ x ♂ wmf cross:

PhenotypeTotal
♂ +++463
♂ wmf10
♀ +++635
♀ wmf10

Be sure to get these numbers into your notebooks. You might also try doing some chi square tests. What numbers would you expect if these genes were not X-linked, and are your results significantly different from that? What numbers would you expect if, as I've told you, they are X-linked? Are the differences in the numbers of males and females significant?


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