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Any given organism has diploid set of chromosomes 48, the linkage groups and genotypes will be, respectively
  1. 12:14
  2. 24:24
  3. 24:12
  4. 24:6

A
24:24
B
24:12
C
12:14
D
24:6
Solution
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The number of linkage groups or genotype for an organism is equal to its number of homologous chromosome pairs.
For the given organism, diploid set of chromosomes = 48
So the number of homologous chromosome pairs = 24
Thus, the number of linkage groups or genotype = 24

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