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You are working in a research lab on the organism Drosophila melanogaster , and you have been given the job of determining the relative positions of three linked genes for your undergraduate research project. A graduate student in the lab tells you that gene a is 5.0 centimorgans from gene b , and that gene c is 2.7 centimorgans from gene b . What should you do to finish mapping these three genes? What are the likely results that may occur, and how would you interpret such results?


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