Final answer:
The law of linkage violates the Law of Independent Assortment among Mendel's principles of inheritance.
Step-by-step explanation:
The law of linkage violates the Law of Independent Assortment among Mendel's principles of inheritance.
The Law of Independent Assortment states that genes do not influence each other in terms of sorting alleles into gametes, and every possible combination of alleles is equally likely to occur. However, linked genes on the same chromosome tend to be inherited together.
In contrast, the Law of Segregation, Law of Dominance, and Law of Unit Characters are not violated by linkage.