law of Segret this tow states that each parent organism has two copies of
cach discrete unit, or
and that the two copies separate from
each other during
Mendel then performed dihybrid crosses,
and as a result, developed his second law, the
This law states
essentially that the inheritance of one trait does not influence the inheritance of another trait.
Mendel's second law applies to genes that are on separate chromosomes or to genes that are
so far apart on the same chromosome that they have a strong chance of being separated by
However, his second law does not apply to genes that exhibit
because they are close together on the same chromosome.
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Meiosis and Mende
Meiosis and Mendel