A geneticist identified 117
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A geneticist identifies
117
recombinant offspring out of a total of
1
,
359
. What is the recombination frequency?
Calculating Genetic Distance:
Thomas Hunt Morgan was the first scientist to recognize that genes could be "linked", or close to each other on the same chromosome. He used this information to build the first genetic map in Drosophila, using recombination frequency between genes to measure distance. His calculation method is still used today. He calculated genetic distance as the frequency of recombination. His reasoning was that the closer together two genes were, the less likely it would be to see recombinant offspring.
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To calculate recombination frequency, Morgan used the following equation:
(# of recombinant offspring)/(total # of offspring)
Therefore,...