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

A

Repulsion phase

B

Recombination

C

Linkage

D

Crossing over

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Lack of independent assortment in Drosophila is due to linkage. When genes are closely present or link togeter n a group and transimitted as a single unit, the phenomenon is called linkage. It stops the process of independent assortment. Incomplete linkage is broken down due to crossing over.
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