Genetic Maps
This text explores what a genetic map is and how recombination frequencies can be used to order genes on a chromosome and to approximate the genetic distance between genes on a genetic map.
Topics
- Alfred Sturtevant
- centiMorgan
- cM
- crossing over
- crossover
- double crossover
- Drosophila melanogaster
- Drosophila
- gene linkage
- genetic distance
- genetic map
- linkage map
- linkage
- m.u.
- map unit
- Morgan
- physical map
- recombination frequency
- RF
- Sturtevant
- testcross
- Thomas Hunt Morgan