A fruit fly has four pairs of chromosomes in its cells. at meiosis, how many different combinations of maternal and paternal chromosomes are possible in the gametes?
Biology · High School · Mon Jan 18 2021
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Answer: Using the law of independent assortment, we can calculate that there are 16 possible combinations of gametes.
You can calculate this by doing:
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Note that this only describes the maternal/paternal combinations. Due to crossing over, there are endless possibilities in terms of the genotype of these gametes.