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Mendel observed that some characters did not assort independently. Later researchers found it to be due to
Crossing-over
Linkage
Dominance of one trait over the other
Amitosis
Solution
(b) 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.
Similar Questions
In a certain plant, red flowers $(R)$ are dominant to white flowers $(r)$ and tallness $(T)$ is dominant to dwarfness $(t)$. A heterozygous plant $(RrTt)$ is backcrossed with a double recessive plant $(rrtt)$. If the gene loci for colour and size and situated very close together on the same chromosome, the expected percentage of offsprings could be approximately
tall red |
tall white |
dwarf red |
dwarf white |
respectively