A competent bacterial strain that has the genotype a- b- c+ is transduced with a P1 phage carrying a fragment of donor chromosome with the a+ b+ c- alleles. The following number of transductants were found after screening for the selectable marker a+. Which of the following conclusions is false?
A) The selected marker screen will inhibit growth of transductants with the genotype a- b+ c- .
B) The transduction frequency between a and b is 82%.
C) Gene a and gene b are closer together than gene a and gene c.
D) The gene order is acb.
E) The transduction frequency between a and c is 48%.
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