Linkers have the following two applications: creation of cohesive 'ends

on blunt~ended DNA fragments, and 

on fragments having unmatched or undefined sequences in their protruding ends. 

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Two kinds of independence

1. The genes at each locus were independent in their assortment in meiosis
2. The genes were independent in their phenotypic expression
   
   
   

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Gene Interaction Takes Place When Genes at Multiple Loci Determine a Single Phenotype.

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Genes exhibit independent assortment but do not act independently in their phenotypic expression.

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Collaborative gene interaction

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Comb shapes in chickens

9/16 walnut (R- P-)

3/16 rose (R- pp)

3/16 pea (rr P-)

1/16 single (rr pp)

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Gene Interaction with Epistasis

The effect of gene interaction is that one gene masks (hides) the effect of another gene at a different locus.