In fruit flies,the recessive pr and cn mutations cause brown and bright-red eyes,respectively (wild-type flies have brick-red eyes) .The double mutant pr cn combination has orange eyes.A female who has wild-type eyes is crossed to an orange-eyed male.Their progeny have the following distribution of eye colours:
What is the map distance between the pr and cn genes?
A) 20 m.u.
B) 2 m.u.
C) 4 m.u.
D) 46 m.u.
E) 8 m.u.
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