3. What is linkage?

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Two genes are said be under linkage,
or , when they reside in same
chromosome.

For example, research of the human
discovered that the factor
clotting gene and the V of clotting
gene located in the same
(the human chromosome
1). factor VII gene however not
linked to those since it is located
the chromosome 13.