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In Drosophila, the gene for body colour (grey B B\,B is dominant to black bbb) and the gene for wing shape (normal V V\,V is dominant to vestigial vvv) are autosomally linked.

A wild-type heterozygous female was crossed with a double homozygous recessive male. The arrangement of alleles on their chromosomes is shown in the diagram below:

Autosomal linkage chromosome diagram

A student collected and counted the resulting offspring of this cross:

  • Grey body, normal wings: 415
  • Black body, vestigial wings: 385
  • Grey body, vestigial wings: 105
  • Black body, normal wings: 95

What is the recombination frequency between these two gene loci?

10%10\%10%

20%20\%20%

25%25\%25%

80%80\%80%

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