Q. An individual homozygous for genes cd is crossed with wild type and F1 crossed back with the double recessive. The appearance of the offspring is as follows
+ + → 903
cd → 897
+d → 98
c+ → 102
The distance between the genes c and d is

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Solution:

% 𝑜𝑓 𝑟𝑒𝑐𝑜𝑚𝑏𝑖𝑛𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛 = 𝐷𝑖𝑠tan𝑐𝑒 𝑏𝑒𝑡𝑤𝑒𝑒𝑛 𝑡𝑤𝑜 𝑔𝑒𝑛𝑒𝑠
=
= 200 1002000 = 10 % 𝑜𝑟 10 𝑐𝑀