Nikolai Harper

Geography

30 November, 07:48

Assume that you conduct a testcross (aabb x aabb) and find that the recombination frequency between a and b is 35% which would correspond to a map distance of 35 mu. why is this value likely an underestimation of the true map distance between the two genes? how might you determine a more accurate map distance? (you don't have to find a particular distance that would be more accurate, just describe how you would go about doing it?)