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Lack of independent assortment of two genes A and B in fruit fly Drosophila is due to

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Repulsion

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Recombination

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Linkage

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Crossing over

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Solution

The correct option is C
Linkage

The genes located on the same chromosome (linked genes) usually do not assort independently but remain together in the gametes and the offspring.

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