Given below are two statements: one is labelled as Assertion (A) and the other is labelled as Reason (R).
Assertion (A): Morgan observed that the Drosophila genes for yellow body and white eye showed 1.3 percent recombination frequency.
Reason (R): Sturtevant used the frequency of recombination between gene pairs on the same chromosome as a measure of the distance between genes.
In the light of the above statements, choose the most appropriate answer from the options given below: