NEET Biology question

If linkage was known at the time of Mendel, which of the following laws would he not have been able to explain?

(A)Law of dominance
(B)Law of independent assortmentCorrect
(C)Law of segregation
(D)Law of purity of gametes

Answer: (B)

Solution

Linked genes do not assort independently, producing F2 ratios that deviate significantly from the expected 9:3:3:1 dihybrid ratio. If Mendel had happened to study a pair of genes that were, in fact, linked, he would not have observed clean independent assortment and so could not

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