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Differentiate between linkage and recombination.

Answer:

The main difference between linkage and recombination are as follows:

	Linkage	Recombination
1.	Cause of inheritance	Cause of variation
2.	Tendency of genes to stay together	Tendency of genes to segregate
3.	Accounts for parental combination	Accounts for recombinants
4.	Ratio remain fixed	Ratio variable depending on % of recombination
5.	Basis for linkage maps	Basis for gene map of chromosome