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Q. The number of linkage group(s) present in Escherichia coli is

MP PMTMP PMT 2012Principles of Inheritance and Variation

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All those genes, which are located in the ingle chromosome constitute a linkage group. This simply means that the total number of linkage groups in an organism is equal to the number or chromosomal pairs. Only one linkage group is found in E. coli.