You are studying four linked genes located on chromosome 2 in the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster: adp (which contributes to obesity), b (which contributes to body color), pr (which contributes to metabolism), and vg (which contributes to wing formation). A series of crosses between pair-wise combinations of these mutations yielded the following recombination frequencies between the indicated loci: pr and adp 9% adp and b 6% pr and b 3% vg and b 10% vg and pr 7% What is the genetic distance in map units (cM) between the adp and vg loci? 16 9 06 4

You are studying four linked genes located on chromosome 2 in the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster: adp (which contributes to obesity), b (which contributes to body color), pr (which contributes to metabolism), and vg (which contributes to wing formation). A series of crosses between pair-wise combinations of these mutations yielded the following recombination frequencies between the indicated loci: pr and adp 9% adp and b 6% pr and b 3% vg and b 10% vg and pr 7% What is the genetic distance in map units (cM) between the adp and vg loci? 16 9 06 4

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You are studying four linked genes located on chromosome 2 in the fruit fly Drosophila
melanogaster: adp (which contributes to obesity), b (which contributes to body color), pr (which
contributes to metabolism), and vg (which contributes to wing formation). A series of crosses
between pair-wise combinations of these mutations yielded the following recombination frequencies
between the indicated loci:
pr and adp 9%
adp and b 6%
pr and b 3%
vg and b 10%
vg and pr 7%
What is the genetic distance in map units (cM) between the adp and vg loci?
16
9
6
4

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