Hemophilia and colorblindness are both recessive conditions caused by mutations in genes on the X chromosome. To calculate the recombination frequency between the two genes, you draw a large number of pedigrees that include grandfathers with both hemophilia and color blindness, their daughters (who presumably have one chromosome with the normal alleles and one chromosome with two mutant alleles), and the daughter’s sons. Analyzing all the pedigrees together shows that 25 grandsons have both color blindness and hemophilia, 24 have neither of the traits, 1 has colorblindness only, and one has hemophilia only. How many centimorgans (map units) separate the hemophilia locus from the locus for color blindness? Show your analysis

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Hemophilia and colorblindness are both recessive conditions caused by mutations in genes on the X chromosome. To calculate the recombination frequency between the two genes, you draw a large number of pedigrees that include grandfathers with both hemophilia and color blindness, their daughters (who presumably have one chromosome with the normal alleles and one chromosome with two mutant alleles), and the daughter’s sons. Analyzing all the pedigrees together shows that 25 grandsons have both color blindness and hemophilia, 24 have neither of the traits, 1 has colorblindness only, and one has hemophilia only. How many centimorgans (map units) separate the hemophilia locus from the locus for color blindness? Show your analysis 

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