Class 12th Biology 2018 Set1 Delhi Board Paper Solution

Question 25

Write the scientific name of the organism Thomas Hunt Morgan and his colleagues worked with for their experiments. Explain the correlation between linkage and recombination with respect to genes as studied by them. 

Answer

Thomas Hunt Morgan used fruitfly Drosophills malenogester for his experiment. Morgan and his colleagues explain that when the gene are closely linked to each other their is no crossing over occurs due to which the frequency of parental is much higher than the frequency of recombinant one.