The mechanism that causes a gene to move from one linkage group to another is called:

The mechanism that causes a gene to move from one linkage group to another is called:
  1. Inversion
  2. Duplication
  3. Translocation
  4. Crossing-over

Solution

Translocation is a phenomenon of transfer of a gene segment between non-homologous chromosome, i.e., different linkage group.

Asked in: NEET 2016 (Phase 2)

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