Question

In drosophila melanogaster, the common fruit fly, curved wings "I" and purple eyes "r" are two linked recessive genes found on chromosomes 2. The dominant wild type alleles for those genes are long wings"L" and red eyes "R"
a)describe the expected ratio of offspring in the f2 generation of these genes were located on different chromosomes
b)the results in the f2 generation of these flies were: 40 long winged, red eyes; 40 curved winged, red eyes; 10 long winged, purple eyes, and 10 curved winged, red eyed. how many map units apart are the genes for curved wings and purple eye color?

Answer 1

Answer:

$40 \times 60 \\ = 240$

240 is the answer

Answer 2

Answer:

the other person is right, he had messed up before saying that 60 x 40 = 100, but 60 + 40 = 100. Then I had told him that his answer was wrong and that he should put the answer as 240 instead since 60 x 40 = 240 and not 100.

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