To show how analysis of genetic data derived from hap

loid organisms can be used to distinguish between linkage

and independent assortment of two genes, and then allows
mapping distances to be calculated between gene loci, we
shall consider tetrad analysis in the alga Chlamydomonas.
Except that the four meiotic products are not ordered and
do not undergo a mitotic division following the completion
of meiosis, the general principles discussed for Neurospora
also apply to Chlamydomonas.
To compare independent ass