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barry barry
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11 years ago
Mendel selected seven traits to analyze in his famous pea plant crosses, and all of these traits yielded expected 3:1 phenotypic F2 ratios in monohybrid crosses. He was fortunate in his selection of these traits. How so? What problem might he have encountered that may have yielded confusing ratios?
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11 years ago
By chance, some of the traits he selected might not have been independently assorting, owing to linkage (presence on the same chromosome).
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