Question

Elucidate "Law of independent Assortment". Explain how Mendel achieved it.

Answer 1

According to the law of independent assortment when there are two pairs of contrasting characters, the distribution of the members of one pair into the gametes is independent of the distribution of the other pair.
Based on dihybrid ratio of 9:3:3:1 in F₂ generation, Mendel observed that when a plant with two dominant alleles was crossed with another having the corresponding recessive alleles it was possible to obtain new combinations of characters where a plant had one dominant and the other recessive allele. These were new recombinations were not present in either parent or F₁ generation.