The Diagram Below Shows the Chromosomes of a Plant That

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Multiple Choice

The diagram below shows the chromosomes of a plant that is heterozygous at six loci as well as for a reciprocal translocation involving the chromosomes that carry these loci. This plant is crossed to a plant with normal chromosomes that is homozygous recessive at all loci,and the progeny was comprised of about 250 individuals,half of them phenotypically ABDEFG and half abdefg.This result suggests that:

• A)multiple crossovers occurred.
• B)no crossovers occurred.
• C)segregation was always adjacent.
• D)segregation was always alternate.
• E)the six loci are unlinked.

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