Principles of Inheritance and Variation Question 92
92. Mendel studied inheritance of seven pairs of traits in Pea which can have 21 possible combinations. If you are told that in one of these combinations, independent assortment is not observed in later studies, your reaction will be
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(a) Independent assortment principle may be wrong
(b) Mendel might not have studied all the combinations
(c) It is impossible
(d) Later studies may be wrong
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Answer : b
Hints & Solution
(b) Law of independent assortment is applicable to only those factors or genes which are located on different chromosomes. Probably the characters were present on the same chromosome and showed linkage which Mendel might not have studied.
