Genetic Linkage and Recombination | Biology

Let's learn more about how genes tend to move along with the genes that are adjacent to them, which is known as genetic linkage. We can understand genetic linkage through Mendel’s law of independent assortment, and we'll discuss genetic recombination and recombination frequency.

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00:00 Intro
00:10 Set up
00:41 Explanation
03:13 Common mistakes
04:19 Overview

[YoruShika-vhmd]

I somewhat vaguely grasp the idea. Genetic linkage simply means that it has the likelihood that it would violate the law of independent assortment. Because as said in law of independent assortment that the separation of allele is not dependent on each other. And there is equal chance that different trait will occur together no bias at all. However, Genetic linkage can be violated this law since it said that When two gene were nearly proximate to each other they said to be linked so theres a likelihood that both of this gene will inherit at the same time we can safely assume that due to their proximity they became now dependent to each other which is linked and this once again violated the law of independen assortment.
However, it can work only if two contrasting gene were distant enough to each other then it diminishes the likelihood that they will inherit at the same time and they also have no relationship therefore law of independent assortment would work here because both of this two gene can be assort individually that not only to be pair with linked trait rather with other trait.

[Jayleen-fp]

If I was trying to understand microbiology what prerequisite sciences would I have to understand first?