As an Undergraduate Research Assistant, You Are Given a Genetic

question 30

Multiple Choice

As an undergraduate research assistant, you are given a genetic mapping project. You are told that genes a and b are 7.4 map units from each other and that genes b and c are 5.7 map units from each other. You perform a testcross to determine the map distance between a and c . Which of the following results would indicate that c lies between a and b ?

• A) 11.1 map units
• B) 15.0 map units
• C) 2.0 map units
• D) 14.8 map units
• E) 13.1 map units

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