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Which statement about Thomas Hunt Morgan’s conclusion is true? 1.) Traits like white eye color in fruit flies are recessive traits that are linked to the Y chromosome. 2.) Traits like white eye color in fruit flies must be linked to both X and Y chromosomes to be expressed. 3.) Traits like white eye color in fruit flies are dominant traits that are linked to X chromosomes. 4.) Traits like white eye color in fruit flies are linked to the X chromosome.

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Traits like white eye color in fruit flies are linked to the X chromosome.

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The correct option is this: TRAITS LIKE WHITE EYE COLOR IN FRUIT FLIES ARE LINKED TO THE X CHROMOSOMES.
Thomas Hunt Morgan was a scientist, who worked with Drosohilla and studied the sex chromosomes in the fruit flies. In the course of his study he discovered that the white eye colour is recessive compared to the dominant red eye colour in the flies and that the white eye color gene is linked to the X sex chromosomes,
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