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Mapping two beetle genes

Topic: Linkage & recombination mapping

In a flour beetle, black body (B) is dominant to brown (b) and long antennae (L) are dominant to short (l). A true-breeding black long-antennae beetle was crossed with a brown short-antennae beetle. The F1 females (BbLl) were then test-crossed to brown short-antennae males (bbll), and 1000 offspring were scored.

Data

Test-cross offspring
PhenotypeNumber
Black, long antennae418
Brown, short antennae402
Black, short antennae88
Brown, long antennae92

What do these data show about the two genes?

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