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Significance of Crossing Over

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Differentiate between.
Linkage and crossing over

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Tendency of two or more genes of the same chromosome to remain together during the process of inheritance is known as linkage. Whereas mutual exchange of blocks of homologous genes between a pair of homologous chromosomes is known as crossing over.

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