UNIVERSITY OF SANTO TOMAS

Senior High School

2nd Semester of SY 2019-2020

GENETICS & INHERITANCE

DROSOPHILA VIRTUAL LABORATORY
Written Output 1

NAME: SCORE:
Tizon, Julius Miguel A.

SECTION: DATE SUBMITTED: May 15, 2020

12-HA9

EYE COLOR
TIZON Assigned Characteristic:
Eye color
Female parent Male parent phenotype:
phenotype:
Wild Type White eyes
Possible 1 if sex is ignored/2 if sex is not ignored
offspring
combinations:
Phenotype result:
Male; Wild Female; Wild Type-617
Type-605
Resulting traits:
Dominant Wild Type
Why: After mating, the results show that all the offspring had the same
phenotype and inherited the wild type eye color trait. However, as
you can notice, the phenotype of the parents is not the same. This
only indicates that this is a breed between a female homozygous
dominant fly and a male recessive fly.
By utilizing Punnett square, it will result to offspring with the
following genotypes (Xw = recessive white eye allele; XW =
dominant wild-type allele):

• XWXw
• XWXw
• XWY
• XWY

As you can notice, the genotype of the female offspring is

heterozygous. Basically, its phenotype will depend on which of the
two phenotypes is dominant. For this scenario, the phenotype of
all the female offspring is wild type, hence, this is the dominant
trait. Meanwhile, for the male offspring, it can still be noticed that
the Wild type trait is the dominant trait since as we all know, a
dominant trait is defined as the trait that is visibly seen in the
organism.
 In conclusion, wild type is the dominant trait because the wild type
eye color was the trait that manifested over the recessive trait in
the organism.
Recessive White Eyes
Why: As mentioned, this is an example of a breed between female
homozygous dominant fly and a male recessive fly. With this, by
utilizing Punnett square, it will result to offspring with the
following genotypes (Xw = recessive white eye allele; XW =
dominant wild-type allele):

• XWXw
• XWXw
• XWY
• XWY
As mentioned, for a fly with a heterozygous genotype, its
phenotype depends on the dominant trait and this dominant trait
will be the one expressed in the organism — in this case, the
wildtype eye color trait. On the other hand, the other phenotype
that has not been expressed is considered to be recessive. The
results show that none of the offspring had white eyes. Hence, this
only indicates that white eyes is the recessive trait since this is the
one that did not manifest in the offspring.
Incompletely NONE
dominant
Why: Based from the results, an incompletely dominant trait is not
evident. Incomplete dominance is defined as a situation when a
dominant allele, does not completely mask the effects of a
recessive allele, and the organism’s resulting physical
appearance shows a blending of both alleles. However, in this
case, the wild type trait was completely dominant and there is no
evidence of incomplete dominance.
Codominant NONE
Why: Based from the results, a codominant dominant trait is not evident.
Codominance is defined as a situation wherein there is a
combination of the two phenotypes and both phenotypes are
expressed in the organism. Instead of one trait being dominant
over the other, both traits appear. However, for this scenario,
none of the offspring had a different trait other than the wild type
eye color. Hence, there is no codominant trait
Notebook/ https://drive.google.com/open?id=10FKzRIE4ZjqcTCnBUObkO
summary FYPYwVCEayS
ANTENNAE
TIZON assigned characteristic:
ANTENNAE
Female parent Male parent phenotype:
phenotype:
WILD TYPE WILD TYPE
Possible 1 if sex is ignored/2 if sex is not ignored
offspring
combinations:
Phenotype result:
Male; Wild Female; Wild Type-601
Type-614
Resulting traits:
Dominant WILD TYPE
Why: Basically, based on the results, what happened is that there is a
breed between a female homozygous dominant fly and a male
dominant fly. The two parents have a phenotype of wild type.
Hence, after mating, both male and female offspring had the wild
type trait as well. This only indicates that this is the dominant trait
since it is the one expressed fully.
To visualize, a Punnett square is presented below (XW = dominant
wild-type allele):
 Offspring:
• XWXW (Phenotype: Wild type)
• XWXW (Phenotype: Wild type)
• XWY (Phenotype: Wild type)
• XWY (Phenotype: Wild type)

Recessive NONE
Why: Based on the given scenario, there is no evident recessive trait.
The results showed no other traits than a wild type phenotype and
the reason behind this is that both parents have the same
phenotype (wild type) wherein the genotype of the female parent
is a homozygous dominant fly and the male is a dominant fly.
To visualize, a Punnett square is presented below (XW = dominant
wild-type allele):

Offspring:
• XWXW (Phenotype: Wild type)
• XWXW (Phenotype: Wild type)
• XWY (Phenotype: Wild type)
• XWY (Phenotype: Wild type)
Incompletely NONE
dominant

Why: Based from the results, there is no incompletely dominant trait.

Incomplete dominance is defined as a situation when a dominant
allele, does not completely mask the effects of a recessive allele,
and the organism’s resulting physical appearance shows a
blending of both alleles. However, in this situation, the wild type
trait was completely dominant and there is no evidence of
incomplete dominance.
Codominant NONE
Why: Based from the results, there is no codominant trait. Codominance
is defined as a situation wherein there is a combination of the two
phenotypes and both phenotypes are expressed in the organism.
Instead of one trait being dominant over the other, both traits
appear. However, for this situation, none of the offspring had a
different trait other than the wild type antennae. Hence, there is
no codominant trait
Notebook/ https://drive.google.com/file/d/1M-
summary PauZqT_JUVRihNRq3oaw7CzgpLOpGi/view?usp=drivesdk