In the third thoracic segment of the fly, the Hox gene Ubx represses wing-specific genes to specify haltere development. In a loss-of-function mutation of Ubx, the third thoracic fragment will grow wings instead of halteres. The second thoracic fragment normally grows wings. If you ectopically expressed Ubx in the second thoracic fragment, you would expect that:

cells spend most of their time in interphase

the potatoes have high sugar concentrations and although these potatoes were different we could seethe effects that their sugar concentrations had in different environments. for example, the potatoes in sample a, were placed in pure water. this created a hypertonic environment and caused the potatoes to draw in water from its surroundings. we saw the opposite happen with the potatoes in sample b when placed in the sodium chloride solution. the potatoes in this case were in a hypotonic solution and therefore lost water to their surroundings.