Why law of independent assortment is not universal?
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Law of independent
When two homozygous parents with two pairs of contrasting traits are crossed, one pair's inheritance is independent of the other's.
In other words, when a dihybrid produces gametes, the assortment (distribution) of alleles for certain traits is unaffected by the parents' initial combinations.
Many genes are connected because they are found on the same chromosome.
As a result, they pass through gametes as a linkage group
. Recombinations, on the other hand, are caused by the crossing over that occurs during meiosis.
As a result, the law of independent assortment only applies to features that are found on different chromosomes.
As a result, the law of independent assortment isn't always relevant.