Life: The Science of Biology
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Genetic linkage and its effects in genetic crosses.

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The genes present close to each other on a chromosome can become physically linked. This is known as genetic linkage. This phenomenon was first discovered by Thomas Hunt Morgan in the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster.

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