An Honours student is working on a project to determine the distance between two loci. She performs fifty crosses and observes 8 recombination events between the two loci. What is the distance between the two loci?
A) 0.16 cM
B) 0.16 Kb
C) 16 Kb
D) 16 cM
E) There is insufficient data to determine the distance between the two loci.

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The distance between two loci is calculated as the recombination frequency, which is the number of recombination events divided by the total number of crosses, multiplied by 100 to convert to centimorgans (cM). Here, (8/50) * 100 = 16 cM.

An Honours Student Is Working on a Project to Determine