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Two different strains of a mutant phage infected a single bacterium.One phage strain is a-b+ and the other is a+b-.The coinfected phages produced the wild-type phenotype in the bacterium: progeny phages were diluted and plated on a bacterial lawn.The resulting plaques produced the following genotypes: 19 a+ b+, 31 a-b+, 29 a+b-, 21 a-b-.What is the recombination frequency between the a and b genes?


A) 10%
B) 20%
C) 30%
D) 40%
E) 50%

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