When Thomas Hunt Morgan crossed his red-eyed F1 generation flies to each other, the F2 generation included both red- and white-eyed flies. Remarkably, all the white-eyed flies were male. What was the explanation for this result?

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When Thomas Hunt Morgan crossed his red-eyed F1 generation flies to each other, the F<sub>2</sub> generation included both red- and white-eyed flies. Remarkably, all the white-eyed flies were male. What was the explanation for this result?






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