Which of the Following Reasons was Essential for Mendel's Law

Question

Which of the following reasons was essential for Mendel's law of independent assortment?
A)All the traits that Mendel examined involved genes that did not display linkage.
B)Several of the phenotypes that Mendel examined involved color.
C)Mendel observed chromosomal segregation in pea-plant cells.
D)Mendel carried out his experiments on plants and not on fungi.

Accepted Answer

Mendel's law of independent assortment is based on the principle that genes for different traits are sorted separately from one another so that the inheritance of one trait is not dependent on the inheritance of another. This was possible because the traits Mendel studied were on different chromosomes (or far enough apart on the same chromosome) and thus did not display linkage, meaning they were inherited independently.