Mendel's law of independent assortment states that
- A. dominant alleles always mask recessive ones
- B. the alleles of one pair separate into gametes independently of the alleles of other pairs
- C. genes on the same chromosome always recombine
- D. opposite traits blend together in the F1 generation
Explanation
During meiosis each pair of homologues lines up independently, so the allele a gamete gets for one character does not influence the other characters. The law needs the genes to sit on different chromosomes, as linkage questions make clear.
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