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#Question id: 5289


A donor strain of bacteria with genes a+b+c+ is infected with phages to map the donor chromosome with transduction. The phage lysate from the bacterial cells is collected and used to infect a second strain of bacteria that are a_ b_ c_.

Based on the above, which one of the following conclusions is correct?

#Unit 8. Inheritance Biology
  1. Gene b in middle, distance between a and b is greater than b and c

  2. Gene c in middle, distance between a and c is greater than b and c

  3. Gene a in middle, distance between a and b is greater than a and c

  4. Gene a in middle, distance between a and b is less than a and c