The benefits of antioxidants are very important to good health, because if free radicals are left unchallenged, they can cause a wide range of illnesses and chronic diseases. The human body naturally produces free radicals and the antioxidants to counteract their damaging effects.
Supplement. When a pair or set of genes are on the same chromosome, they are usually inherited together or as a single unit. For example, in fruit flies the genes for eye color and the genes for wing length are on the same chromosome, thus are inherited together.
Linkage and Gene Mapping. Photo by: Johan Swanepoel. Linkage refers to the presence of two different genes on the same chromosome. Two genes that occur on the same chromosome are said to be linked, and those that occur very close together are tightly linked. Study of linkage provides information about the relative position of genes on chromosomes, allowing the construction of chromosome maps.