MBG 2040 Chapter Notes - Chapter 7: Centimorgan, Interphase, Sex Linkage

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In this way, then, the possibility for nondisjunction is minimized, and aneuploidy in the gametes is largely prevented. Linkage between genes is detected as a deviation from expectations based on mendel"s. Principle of independent assortment: the frequency of recombination measures the intensity of linkage. Late in prophase i, crossovers become visible as chiasmata. Linkage between human genes can be detected by analyzing pedigrees: pedigree analysis also provides estimates of recombination frequencies to map genes on human chromosomes. Suppression of recombination by inversions seems to have played an important role in the evolution of the sex chromosomes in mammals: through natural selection, functional genes have been retained on the x chromosome, but on the. Y chromosome most of the genes have degenerated through the accumulation of random mutations: thus, today the y chromosome has fewer functional genes than the x chromosome, and the ones that remain are arranged in a different order.

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