Genetic Linkage: An Exception to the Law of Independent Assortment Flashcards
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the creator of the Punnett square, a tool still used by biologists to predict the probability of possible genotypes of offspring.
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Reginald Crundall Punnett
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conducted experiments with sweet peas.
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William Bateson and Reginald Punnett
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was one of the first scientists to discover that the inheritance of some traits do not follow the law of independent assortment .
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William Bateson
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states that when two genes are closely associated on the same chromosome, they do not assort independently and this proved the concept of genetic linkage.
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Thomas Hunt Morgan
