Is the following sentence true or false? Thomas hunt morgan discovered that some genes violated the principle of independent assortment.

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Kaeden Deleon

2 May, 06:41

Is the following sentence true or false? Thomas hunt morgan discovered that some genes violated the principle of independent assortment.

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Jasiah Lambert · Answer 1

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During his experiments on fruit flies, Thomas hunt Morgan discovered genes do not always assort independently as proposed by Mendel. He observed that some genes have a tendency to be inherited together since they are present close to each other on the same chromosome. According to Morgan, these linked genes are inherited together to the progeny and violate the principle of independent assortment. This results in the production of more parental types and a relatively less frequency of recombinants in the progeny.