Choose the correct statement with respect to F₂ generation fruit flies obtained by Morgan when he made crosses between true breeding females with white eye and yellow body and males with red eye and brown body and intercrossing the F₁ individuals.

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Individuals with parental combination traits and non-parental combination traits (recombinants) were obtained in equal proportions.

Red eyed and brown bodied flies were more than the white eyed and yellow bodied flies.

red eyed and yellow bodied flies and white eyed brown bodies flies were obtained in almost in equal proportions.

red eyed and yellow bodied and white eyed and brown bodies flies were obtained in almost unequal proportions.

answer is C.

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A cross between true breeding white eyed and yellow bodied female fruit fly and red eyed and brown bodied male forms F₁ generation individuals with red eye and brown body females (heterozygous) and white eyed and yellow bodied males (hemizygous). If these individuals were intercrossed, the F₂ generation had most of them (both males and females) with parental combinations as Red eyed brown bodied or white eyed and yellow bodied (98.7%) and only 1.3% had recombinants with white eye and brown body and red eye and yellow body.

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