Mendel's Law of Independent Assortment States That

Question

Mendel's law of independent assortment states that
A) homologous chromosomes are independent and don't pair up.
B) genes do not sort independently during meiosis.
C) each pair of alleles segregates independently of other pairs of alleles during meiosis.
D) gametes will only contain combinations of genes that match the combinations from one of the parents.
E) gametes will contain only one copy of each gene after meiosis.

Accepted Answer

Mendel's law of independent assortment states that each pair of alleles segregates independently of other pairs of alleles during meiosis. This means that the inheritance of one gene does not affect the inheritance of another gene, and the assortment of alleles for one gene is independent of the assortment for another gene. This also means that the combination of alleles a gamete receives for one gene is random and does not depend on the combination the gamete receives for other genes.