Zoology - Principles of Inheritance and Variation Question with Solution | TestHub

The chromosomes contain the genes for various features. If many genes are located on the same chromosome and within close proximity, the genes are considered to be linked. Such linked genes resist recombination during the meiotic phase of cell division in gamete formation and do not follow Mendel's law of independent assortment, which states that "that the alleles of two (or more) different genes get sorted into gametes independently of one another. In other words, the allele a gamete receives for one gene does not influence the allele received for another gene".