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Coupling and repulsion hypothesis was given by

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The coupling and repulsion hypothesis was given by Bateson.
Bateson and Punnett in 1906, described a cross in sweat pea, where failure of gene pairs to assort independently was exhibited.
Bateson explained the lack of independent assortment through a hypothesis known as the coupling and repulsion hypothesis. Later on, coupling and repulsion were discovered to be two different aspects of linkage.
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