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#Question id: 15843


You have isolated two temperature-sensitive mutations in phage l that you suspect may be in the same gene. These phage mutants are called ts-1 and ts-2. Each mutant will form plaques at 35˚C but not at 42˚C. You cross ts-1 to ts-2 phage by coinfecting E. coli at the permissive temperature of 35˚C. When the resulting phage lysate is plated at 35˚C you count 10,000 plaques per ml of phage lysate, but when the same phage lysate is plated at 42˚C, there are only 80 plaques per ml.           What is the distance between the ts-1 and ts-2 mutations in m.u.?

#Unit 8. Inheritance Biology
  1. 2.6 mu
  2. 1.6 mu
  3. 2.3 mu
  4. 3.9 mu