AMU Medical AMU Solved Paper-2007

  • question_answer
    Lack of independent assortment of two genes A and B in fruit fly Drosophila is due to

    A)  repulsion           

    B)  recombination

    C)  linkage                

    D)  crossing over

    Correct Answer: C

    Solution :

                     W Bateson (1905) explained the lack of independent assortment in sweet pea (Pisum sativum) and T H Morgan (1910) in Drosophila due to linkage. Linkage is broken down due to the crossing over.


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