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question 39

Multiple Choice

Use the following information to answer the questions below.
A plantlike organism on the planet Pandora can have three recessive genetic traits: bluish leaves, due to an allele (a) of gene A; a feathered stem, due to an allele (b) of gene B; and hollow roots due to an allele (c) of gene C. The three genes are linked and recombine as follows:
A geneticist did a testcross with an organism that had been found to be heterozygous for the three recessive traits and she was able to identify progeny of the following phenotypic distribution (+ = wild type) :

-In which progeny phenotypes has there been recombination between genes A and B?

• A) 1, 2, 5, and 6
• B) 1, 3, 6, and 7
• C) 2, 4, 5, and 8
• D) 2, 3, 5, and 7
• E) in all 8 of them

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