law of independent assortment


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Related to law of independent assortment: law of segregation, law of dominance
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each member of a pair of homologous chromosomes separates independently of the members of other pairs so the results are random

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Mendel's laws of segregation and the law of independent assortment of characters are now recognized as the fundamental principles of heredity.
Gregor Johann Mendel
The inheritance of one element does not govern the inheritance of any other element; this is the law of independent assortment.
This is his law of independent assortment. He was able to prove his two laws because he (1) carefully selected his experimental subjects for a limited number of traits and (2) had a large population, which allowed him to treat the result statistically.
Morgan discovered that Mendel's law of independent assortment is true only for genes that occur on different chromosomes--which happened to be the case for the seven pea elements.
GREGOR JOHANN MENDEL
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