Mendel, from his experiments, could not put forward the concept of linkage because all the alleles chosen by him showed

Mutation

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Independent assortment

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Solution

The correct option is D Independent assortment
In experiments performed by Mendel all the genes showed independent assortment, in which genes separate from each other independently and there was no sign of any linked gene so he could not explain the concept of linkage, because he never observed it .
So, the correct answer is "Independent assortment".

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