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why are genes that are located on the same chromosomes, or "linked", the exception to mendel's law of independent assortment?

a. linked genes often separate through crossing over.

b. linked genes do not move together from generation to generation.

c. linked genes often segregate independently.

d. linked genes do not segregate independently.

Ayoung boy has been found and police are trying to locate his family they take a dna sample from him and begin collec dna samples from families who have missing children if police use dna samples only from the fathers, which type of dn technology can they use to identify the boy's parent? y-chromosome analysis omtdna (mitochondrial dna) analysis vntrs (variable tandem repeats) o pcr (polymerase chain reaction) analysis