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Q. Two genetic loci controlling two different traits are linked. During the inheritance of these traits, the Mendelian laws that would be affected is/ are

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Linked genes, violate the law of independent assortment. The segregation of alleles into gametes can be influenced by linkage, in which genes that are located physically close to each other on the same chromosome are more likely to be inherited as pair.