Question

Offspring that exhibit strictly parental trait combinations with no recombinants are produced by:

Options

• Linkage

• Independent assortment

• Genes located on different chromosome pairs

• Segregation of alleles at a single locus

Answer 1

In linkage, genes move as a single unit and are inherited together, producing strictly parental trait combinations with no recombinants. Independent assortment, in contrast, produces both parental and new (recombinant) trait combinations.