Drosophila Days: Fruitfly Genetics Simulation

(Wild type fruitfly, with normal characteristics: black & tan body, normal wings, red eyes, regular antennas.)

You will be using this website to simulate performing genetic cross of the fruitfly Drosophila melanogaster. For all crosses, assume the following:

In the Parental generation, the mutant fly is female, the wildtype fly is male. By convention, wildtype phenotype is written as +
All Parental generation mutants are homozygous except in the case of lethal mutations, in which case the mutants are heterozygous
remember, mutations can be dominant, recessive, and in either case sex-linked.
if the sex of fly offspring is not specified in the F1 or F2 generation, assume that there is a normal 50/50 mix of sexes within the different phenotypes.

Single Crosses: Perform 3 crosses, including vg, wh, and one of your choice. Use the back button in your web browser to return to this table.

*Mutation*	*Description*	*Mate Flies*
vg (required)	vestigial wings	vg cross +
wh (required)	white-eyes	wh cross +
cy	curly wings	cy cross +
an	antennapedia (legs instead of Antennas)	an cross +
eb	ebony body	eb cross +
ey	eyeless	ey cross +
or	orange eyes	or cross +
lb	lobe eyes	lb cross +
yl	yellow body	yl cross +

Sources and Credits: All graphics for this site were obtained from the Exploratorium's website. This site was inspired by CalStateLA's Virtual Fly Lab.