Class 12 NEET Biology Principles of Inheritance and Variation Questions Part 1

Mendel's law of independent assortment states that when the parent differs from each other in two or more pairs of contrasting characters, the inheritance of one pair of factor is independent of the other. For the character to assort independently they should be located on separate non-homologous chromosomes. Genes present on the same chromosome show linkage. It means that these characters remain together and thus low numbers of combinations areformed. This phenomenon is called linkage and such genes are called linked genes. So, A and B are linkedgenes.