Principle of Inheritance and VariationHard
Question
Mendel studied inheritance of seven pairs of traits in pea which can have 21 possible combinations. If you told that in one of these combinations, independent assortment is not observed in later studies, your reaction will be
Options
A.indepenent assortment principle may be wrong
B.Mendel might not have studied all the combinations
C.it is impossible
D.later studies may be wrong
Solution
Mendel′s law of independent assortment is applicable to only those genrs which are located on different chromosomes, so if in one of the combination independent assortment is not observed that means Mendel Might not have studied all the combinations.
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