Linkage and Crossing over

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Linkage and Crossing over: Overview

This topic covers concepts, such as Linkage, Linkage Groups, Mechanism of Linkage, Crossing Over, Linkage Maps, and Recombination of Genes.

Important Questions on Linkage and Crossing over

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Select out the correct statement:

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Males of silkworm Bombyx mori are known to produce more silk per unit quantity of leaf consumed. Hence, they are preferably bred in sericulture industry. Which of the following genotypes should be crossed in order to get maximum fraction of male insects?

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Note: SL1 and SL2 are sex-linked recessive lethal mutations.

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In a dihybird cross between two heterozygotes, AaBb x AaBb, if we get 3:1 ratio among the offspring, the reason for this may be:

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Match the following.

  Column I   Column II
(a) T. H. Morgan (i) Chromosome theory
(b) Hugo de Vries (ii) Gene mapping
(c) Sutton and Boveri (iii) Linkage
(d) Alfred Sturtevant (iv) Mutation
    (v) Hybrid experiments

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A plant heterozygous for height and flower colour TtRr are selfed and 1600 of the resulting seeds are planted. If the distance between the loci controlling height and the flower colour is 1 centiMorgan (cM), then how many offsprings are expected to be short with white flower ttrr? 

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In Drosophila, the genes for the body color and eye color are present on:

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The two genes are 70 cM apart. Then the frequency of recombination is:

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Which of the following is not true about linkage considering body colour and eye colour of the fruit fly, in the experiment performed by Morgan?

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The percentage of the Fgeneration offspring showing parental character for the body colour and eye colour in Morgan's experiment is:

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Genes located very close to one another on the same chromosome tend to be transmitted together and are called _____.

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Mendel's law of independent assortment does NOT hold true for the genes that are located closely on

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Distance between gene and percentage of linkage shows:

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All genes located on the same chromosome ______.

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True-breeding red-eyed Drosophila flies with plain thorax were crossed with pink-eyed flies with striped thorax.

Red-eye and plain thorax Pink-eye and striped thorax

The F1 flies were then test crossed against the double recessive.

The following F2 generation resulted from the cross:
 

80 16 12 92
Red-eye Red-eye Pink-eye Pink-eye
Plain thorax Striped thorax Plain thorax Striped thorax

What percentage number of recombinants resulted from the test cross?

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A. The physical association between the two genes is termed as ____a____.
B. The generation of non-parental gene combination is termed as ____b____ .

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In an experiment, AaBb obtained in the F1 generation was test crossed. In the progeny, genotype Aabb and aaBb were more frequent than AaBb and aabb. Then the genotype of the parents should be

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Which of these statements is correct regarding genes present on the same chromosome?

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Which of these characters cannot be transferred from a male parent to a male progeny in Drosophila?

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Which of the following brings variations among siblings?

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The distance between the genes and percentage recombination shows: