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Why didn't Mendel observe linkage?

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Mendel did not observe linkage because, by chance, he chose traits whose genes resided on different chromosomes. Genes on different chromosomes assort independently. To answer the question of 'Who discovered gene linkage?'...

The answer is British geneticists William Bateson and Reginald Punnett.

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mendel could not note linkage because the seven characters he studied in garden pea,had their genes located on different chromosome or so far apart on the same chromosome that they got separated by on the same chromosome.

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Mendel did not observe linkage because, by chance, he chose traits whose genes resided on different chromosomes. Genes on different chromosomes assort independently.

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The traits he chose were on (by chance) different chromosomes, therefore they independently assorted, and thus, no linkage was observed.

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