Question

In fruit flies the allele for ebony body color is recessive to the allele for brown body color. In a generation of fruit flies with 103 offspring, 51 males and 52 females had ebony bodies. Which of the following is the best conlusion you can make about the parents of this generation? Both parents were heterozygous for body color, Both parents were homozygous with ebony bodies, one parent had an ebony body and the other was heterozygous for body color, one parent was heterozygous for body color and the other was homozygous with a brown body