A wild-type fruit fly (heterozygous for gray body color and normal wings)is mated with a black fly with vestigial wings. The offspring have the following phenotypic distribution: wild type, 778; black-vestigial, 785; black-normal, 158; gray-vestigial, 162. What is the recombination frequency between these genes for body color and wing size?

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A Wild-Type Fruit Fly (Heterozygous for Gray Body Color and Normal