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What is genetic mapping?

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(i) The diagrammatic representation of position of genes and related distances between the adjacent genes is called genetic mapping.
(ii) It is directly proportional to the frequency of recombination between them.
(iii) It is also called as linkage map.
(iv) The concept of gene mapping was first developed by Alfred H Sturtevant.
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