Heredity and Sex 



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Female 



female is the heterozygous sex. The same is true of sex- 

 limited inheritance in canary birds and in the moth, Abraxas, 

 according to Bateson and Doncaster. But these relations are 

 exactly reversed in the pomace fl}-, Drosophila ampclophila, 

 according to Morgan. 



In Drosophila the female is apparently homozygous as 

 regards some cell structure, A', which in the male is never 

 represented more than 

 once. Accordingly, 

 the formula of the 

 female is in such cases 

 A'A'; that of the male, 

 A'—. Now the sex- 

 limited characters in 

 Drosophila seem to be 

 bound up with the X 

 structure, not repelled 

 by it, as is barring in 

 fowls. Accordingly, a 



sex - Hmited character ^^^ 38._Diagram of sex-limited inheritance 



may be represented when the female is a homozygote, as in the red- 



twice in the female ^^^*^ Drosophila. X, sex determiner; R, red 



eyes. 



Drosophila, but only 



once in the male; or in other words, the female may be 

 homozygous as regards a sex-limited character, but the 

 male can only be heterozygous (Fig. 38). 



Drosophila normally has red eyes, but the redness of 

 the eye is a distinct unit-character, sex limited in heredit}-. 

 Further, males are regularly heterozygous in this character, 

 while females are homozygous. For Morgan has obtained 

 a race in which the eyes are white, owing to the loss of the 

 red character; and reciprocal crosses of this race with 



