D. Some Mendelian crossing experimental
results were shown to the students.
Teacher informed that there are two
genes located on the same chromosome.
He enquired if they will be ever separated
from each other?
Answers
Answer:
When two genes are located on the same chromosome and as much they are near to each other they defy the Mendel's Law of Independent Assortment which says that "alleles coding for separate traits are passed independently of one another" but William Bateson, Edith Rebecca Saunders and Reginald Punnett in 1905 discovered the phenomenon of Genetic linkage, according to which two genes located on the same chromosome and are near to each other are unlikely to get separated and tends to gets inherited together. So, there is a very low probability of the two genes to separate from each other. However, the most important consideration in this matter will be the distance between them.
Keywords: Mendel, Independent assortment, genetic linkage, gene
Answer:
When two genes are located on the same chromosome and as much they are near to each other they defy the Mendel's Law of Independent Assortment which says that "alleles coding for separate traits are passed independently of one another" but William Bateson, Edith Rebecca Saunders and Reginald Punnett in 1905 discovered the phenomenon of Genetic linkage, according to which two genes located on the same chromosome and are near to each other are unlikely to get separated and tends to gets inherited together. So, there is a very low probability of the two genes to separate from each other. However, the most important consideration in this matter will be the distance between them.
Keywords: Mendel, Independent assortment, genetic linkage, gene