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Law of Independent Assortment
- The inheritance of one character has no effect on the inheritance of another.
- Genes inherited independently from each other.
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Law of Segregation
- There are alternative versions of genes that account for variations in inherited characters.
- For each character, an organism inherits two alleles, one from each parent.
- If the two alleles of an inherited pair differ, then one determines the organism's appearance and is called the dominant allele; the other has no noticeable effect on the organism's appearance and is called the recessive allele.
- A sperm or egg carries only one allele for each inherited character because allele pairs separate (segregate) from each other during the production of gametes.
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Punnett Square
Shows the different allele crosses that could possibly happen.
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