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  4. Mendel observed that certain characters did assort independently. Later researchers found it to be due to

Q. Mendel observed that certain characters did assort independently. Later researchers found it to be due to

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Solution:

Mendel's law of independent assortment is not universally accepted and is applied only to genes present on different chromosomes and not to genes present on the same chromosome Such type of genes are called linkage genes. In other words, linkage is the tendency for two different genes on the same chromosome to remain together during the separation of homologous chromosome during meiosis.