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Mendel observed that some characters did...

Mendel observed that some characters did not assort independantly. Later researchers found it to be due to

A

Crossing over

B

Linkage

C

Dominance of one trait over the other

D

Amitosis

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B
(b) Mendel's law of independent assortment is not universally accepted and is applied only to genes present on different chromosomes and not to genes present on the same chromsome.
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