You Discovered a Special Dye That Reveals the Position of Recombination

Essay

You discovered a special dye that reveals the position of recombination sites on meiotic chromosomes.You use this dye to count the number of recombination sites and then compare this to the number of genetic exchanges that you can detect by looking at the segregation of markers across the genome.You find many more recombination sites as compared to genetic exchanges.Explain this result.