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An individual homozygous for genes cd is crossed with wild type and crossed back with the double recessive. The appearance of the offspring is as follows
+ + → 903
cd → 897
+d → 98
c+ → 102
The distance between the genes c and d is ----------------.
(a)
(b)
(c)
(d)

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Important Questions on Principles of Inheritance and Variation
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The following family tree traces the occurrence of a rare genetic disease. The filled symbols signify the individuals with the disease, whereas the open symbols signify healthy individuals.
Based on this information, the disease is most likely to be:

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Assertion (A): The proportion of parental gene combinations was much lighter than non-parental type
Reason (R): Gene combination is due to linkage of the two genes

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Give one significant difference between the following:
Linkage and crossing over

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