Principles of Animal Genetics and Population Genetics: Law of independent assortment

Law of independent assortment

LAW OF INDEPENDENT ASSORTMENT

According to the Principle of Independent Assortment, different pairs of alleles are passed to offspring independently of each other.
The members of the different pairs of factors (genes) segregate quite independently of each other during gamete formation and result in new combination of genes.
9:3:3:1 is a typical dihybrid ratio.
Today, we know this is due to the genes for traits that are located on different chromosomes.

LAW OF INDEPENDENT ASSORTMENT
The factors in an allelomorphic pair separates independently to the separation of factors in the other allelomorphic pair

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AGB 121: Principles of Animal Genetics and Population Genetics (2+1)

Law of independent assortment

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