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A plantlike organism on the planet Pandora can have three recessive genetic traits: bluish leaves, due to an allele (a) of gene A; a feathered stem, due to an allele (b) of gene B; and hollow roots due to an allele (c) of gene C. The three genes are linked and recombine as follows:
A geneticist did a testcross with an organism that had been found to be heterozygous for the three recessive traits and she was able to identify progeny of the following phenotypic distribution (+ = wild type):

-The greatest distance among the three genes is between a and c. What does this mean?
A) Gene a is closest to b.
B) Genes are in the order: a-b-c.
C) Gene a is not recombining with c.
D) Gene a is between b and c.
E) Distance a-b is equal to distance a-c.

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A plantlike organism on the planet Pandora can have three recessive genetic traits: bluish leaves, due to an allele (a) of gene A; a feathered stem, due to an allele (b) of gene B; and hollow roots due to an allele (c) of gene C. The three genes are linked and recombine as follows:
A geneticist did a testcross with an organism that had been found to be heterozygous for the three recessive traits and she was able to identify progeny of the following phenotypic distribution (+ = wild type):
 
-The greatest distance among the three genes is between a and c. What does this mean?
A) Gene a is closest to b. 
B) Genes are in the order: a-b-c. 
C) Gene a is not recombining with c. 
D) Gene a is between b and c. 
E) Distance a-b is equal to distance a-c.

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The greatest distance among the three genes indicates that gene a is between genes b and c in the order a-b-c. This means that gene a is not tightly linked to genes b and c and is more likely to undergo recombination events.

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