Question

In s dihybrid cross white eyed yellow bodied drosophila was crossed with red eye brown bodief male drosophilis . The cross produced 1.3% re combi
nation and 98.7 progency with parental type combination in the F2 generation . Analyze the above observation and compare with medelian dihbrid cross

Answer 1

it is due to linkage..it is defined as the phenomenon of in which two or more linked genes are inherited together and their frequency of recombination in a test cross progeny is less than the expected 5O%