Half of the mice (all males) have yellow body colour while the females are wild type(gray) in a cross between true-breeding wild type male flies and true-breeding female flies with yellow body colour. This, most likely, is due to the fact that:

1. Some of your females had already mated with yellow males before you collected them.
2. Some of your parental flies must have had a new mutation in their germ cells.
3. The mutation which causes yellow body color is on the X chromosome.
4. The mutation which causes yellow body color is on the Y chromosome.
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The rediscovery of Mendel’s Laws is credited independently to:

1. de Vries, Correns and von Tschermak
2. Sutton and Boveri
3. Garrod
4. Beadle and Tatum
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