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Which Situation Below Would Violate the Law of Independent Assortment,as

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Which situation below would violate the law of independent assortment,as understood by Mendel?


A) A plant breeder is able to create a true-breeding line that combines the alleles for white flowers and wrinkled peas.
B) A mutant gene can prevent pod formation altogether, thus preventing expression of the round or wrinkled pea alleles.
C) A gene for petal color does not affect the expression of a gene for petal number.
D) A gene for leaf shape is linked to a gene for petal number nearby on the same chromosome, so their alleles usually segregate together.
E) Combining certain alleles of different genes results in a plant that grows poorly.

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