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In Drosophila, long wing and broad abdomen characters are dominant over to characters vestigeal wing and narrow abdomen. A pure breeding Drosophila having long wings and broad abdomen is crossed with a pure breeding vestigeal-winged and narrow-abdomened Drosophila. Two of the $F_1$ individuals were crossed and the following results were produced in the $F_2$ generation Long wing, broad abdomen in $482$ Drosophila. Vestigeal wing, narrow abdomen in $154$ Drosophila. Which one of the following is illustrated by these results
Autosomal linkage
Incomplete dominance
Mendelian monohybrid inheritance
Mendelian dihybrid inheritance
Solution
(a) Broad abdomen or narrow abdoman character is linked to the long wing or vestigeal wing character,
hence these two characters do not show independent assortment as revealed by the $F_2$ ratio. The $F_2$ ratio shows here is i.e., for one character only.