Inheritance

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A geneticist investigates the inheritance of two characteristics in tomato plants: stem colour (controlled by gene A/aA/aA/a) and leaf shape (controlled by gene B/bB/bB/b).

A homozygous dominant plant (AABBAABBAABB) is crossed with a homozygous recessive plant (aabbaabbaabb) to produce heterozygous F1 F_1\,F1​ offspring (AaBbAaBbAaBb).

To determine the degree of linkage between these two genes, an F1 F_1\,F1​ plant is backcrossed with a double homozygous recessive plant (aabbaabbaabb). The resulting phenotypes and numbers of the F2 F_2\,F2​ offspring are shown below:

  • Dominant stem colour, dominant leaf shape: 364
  • Recessive stem colour, recessive leaf shape: 356
  • Dominant stem colour, recessive leaf shape: 142
  • Recessive stem colour, dominant leaf shape: 138

The diagram below illustrates how crossing over (chiasma formation) between linked loci during meiosis generates these recombinant chromatids:

Autosomal linkage and recombination

Based on these results, what is the recombination frequency between gene A A\,A and gene BBB?

14.0%14.0\%14.0%

28.0%28.0\%28.0%

38.9%38.9\%38.9%

72.0%72.0\%72.0%

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